[pups] screen 3.9.9 vs. 2.11BSD write() to fifo and/or select() on socket
David W Talmage
talmage at cmf.nrl.navy.mil
Fri Feb 15 01:27:04 AEST 2002
"Steven M. Schultz" <sms at 2BSD.COM> wrote:
>> From: David W Talmage <talmage at cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
>> Would someone please advise me about fifos and sockets in 2.11BSD?
>...
> Don't use fifos - they don't exist (as you probably have found
> out by now :))
I thought that I'd read in the FM that they do. I see now that I was
mistaken, perhaps delusional. I see now that <sys/stat.h> contains the gospel:
#define S_IFIFO 0010000 /* named pipe (fifo) - Not used by 2.11BSD */
>> I'm having
>> trouble porting screen 3.9.9, the multiplexing terminal emulator, to 2.11BSD
> ...
> an attempt at porting it and ran into the address space problems - seems
> that screen wants to use lots of large buffers, has lots of strings
> (all the help, etc) and so on.
Sounds like I'm in for some deep hacking if I continue with this. Will
overlays help me here?
>...
>> screen can use sockets instead of fifos. That portion of the configure
script
>> fails as well. It fails in that it does not return from the select() on the
>
>> socket until the alarm goes off. See socketstest.c, below.
>...
> With the child exited the select() will block until interrupted by
> the alarm() call.
I wonder if setitimer() will fare any better. alarm() is obsolete.
I'll send a progress report if I decide to continue this project. Thanks for
your help, Mr. Schultz.
David Talmage
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