troubles with non-blocking reads from stdin on ISC 2.2 pseudo ttys

[Riccardo Pizzi]

In article <1991Feb11.045248.3613 at buster.stafford.tx.us> rli at buster.stafford.tx.us writes:

>You should not set VTIME and VMIN to zero!  Instead, you should be using
>the terminal control flag O_NDELAY. 

OK, I'll give it a try. But what makes me wonder is the fact that the way
I handle the problem always *works* except when I'm running on a pty!!
Could someone tell me why this happens?


Rick

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