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Re: TIOCSTI not going away


From: "Todd C. Miller" <Todd.Miller () courtesan com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 08:41:50 -0600

On Thu, 29 Jun 2017 16:23:46 +0200, Solar Designer wrote:

While TIOCSTI is apparently not going away on Linux, it is on OpenBSD,
and here's some analysis of the apparently almost non-existent impact
this will have on Emacs (which was one of the primary examples cited for
keeping TIOCSTI on Linux):

There were two cases of TIOCSTI usage in OpenBSD base: csh and
mail/mailx.  Both have been converted to use an IO-loop where ICANON
is disabled and a single char of input is read at a time.

 - todd


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