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Subject: Re: FleeBSD and XNTPD
To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh)
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From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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> 
> : That's utterly bizzare that async IO isn't working on the serial lines, I seem
> : to recall using it way back a million years ago.
> 
> TIA runs on 2.0R w/o any problems.  It would have big problems if
> async I/O was broken for serial lines....
> 
> Don't know what the deal is, but TIA just does a fcntl of the fd with
> the O_NONBLOCK bit set after reading the flags on fd 0.
> 
> Warner
> 

Apropos FleeBSD:

You know the story of the Asian origin Florida helicopter pilot
who had written

"Fright Instructor"

on his business card. :-O

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de