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From: mark thompson <thompson@tgsoft.com>
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In-reply-to: message from Bruce Evans on Wed, 13 Nov 1996 19:16:18 +1100
Subject: Re: Is our ASYNC I/O support for ttys broken?
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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