Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 20:59:16 -0800 (PST) From: mark thompson <thompson@tgsoft.com> To: bde@zeta.org.au Cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is our ASYNC I/O support for ttys broken? Message-ID: <199611140459.UAA09340@squirrel.tgsoft.com> In-Reply-To: message from Bruce Evans on Wed, 13 Nov 1996 19:16:18 %2B1100
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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 19:16:18 +1100 >Thomas Roell over at X Inside just sent me this little snippet, >complaining that ASYNC I/O was broken in FreeBSD where it worked with >Linux and SVR4. Any comments? The status hasn't changed since he complained a year or so ago. SIGIO for ASYNC tty i/o is only sent to the process group of the tty, So, how do i do ASYNC I/O from a random tty, short of having to select(2) on it? This seems like a problem to me... -mark
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