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From: rer@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Rob Robason)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Beware of serial port programs run by users
Message-ID: <5570376@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: 7 Feb 90 02:07:31 GMT
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Organization: HP Ft. Collins, Co.
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> Such error checking would be costly in terms of
> performance, and would certainly not be consistent with the typical
> low-level expectations of ioctl() operations.

Sorry, I meant to say "inconsistent", not "consistent".  Kind of takes
the umph out of my point.  Boy, I wish notes had some sort of error
checking so it could understand what I MEANT to say :-).

Rob "Irony is my middle name" Robason