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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: TIOCSTI or workaround?
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2017 08:51:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170626085148.GI6201@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <33454913-b374-5fb7-6a5b-a2178fee89ff@starwolf.com>

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On Jun 25 21:04, Greywolf wrote:
> On 2017-06-25 20:58, Greywolf wrote:
> > Greetings,
> > 
> > I have a program I've writ which takes input and types on to other
> > terminals; however, it seems that under Cygwin, TIOCSTI on a file
> > descriptor doesn't work according to plan -- I get "Invalid argument",
> > but I don't know why.
> > 
> > Did a read on ioctl, and saw something about POSIX STREAMS.  I thought
> > that paradigm had died a mean nasty ugly death YEARS back, but I'm
> > hoping that's entirely beside the point.
> > 
> > Does there exist a way to successfully call
> > 
> >      ioctl(fd, TIOCSTI, (char *)cp)
> > 
> > or is there a workaround?
> 
> Addendum:
> 
> I used the "standard" TIOCSTI definition of:
> 
> #define TIOCSTI	0x5214

That can't work.  ioctl codes are platform specific.


Corinna

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-06-26  8:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-26  3:58 Greywolf
2017-06-26  4:04 ` Greywolf
2017-06-26  8:51   ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2017-06-26  8:51 ` Corinna Vinschen

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