Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!vsi!friedl
From: friedl@vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: how to poll keyboard
Summary: Streams-based tty
Message-ID: <778@vsi.UUCP>
Date: 6 Aug 88 03:18:50 GMT
References: <5065@husc6.harvard.edu> <62727@sun.uucp> <11069@lll-winken.llnl.gov>
Organization: V-Systems, Inc. -- Santa Ana, CA
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In article <11069@lll-winken.llnl.gov>, bowles@lll-crg.llnl.gov (Jeff Bowles) writes:
> [discussion of poll(2) under Sys V Rel 3]
> Unfortunately, it only works for STREAMS devices, and the tty subsystem
> is the old, tried-and-not-trusted clist implementation. You can't get
> there from here using poll(2) yet.

I understand that Sys V Rel 4 will include a streams-based tty
subsystem.  This will cure lots of evils besides allowing poll
to work...

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