termios & non-blocking I/O

[Andrey A. Chernov]

On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 20:46:14 +0400, Yar Tikhiy wrote:
> While not in disagreement with POSIX[1], such a behaviour has at
> least one unwelcome consequence:  If a program has been compiled
> with ``-pthread'', the TIME counter won't work on terminal descriptors
> that are in blocking mode from the program's point of view -- read(2)
> will instantly return 0 on them.  That is because the following
> scenario will happen:
...

> Shouldn't both TIME and MIN cases be uniform in returning -1/EAGAIN
> on non-blocking descriptors?

It means that libc_r MIN/TIME handling should be fixed to conform POSIX
and not general MIN/TIME handling way.

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Andrey A. Chernov
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