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From: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
To: "Moseley, Drew" <drew.moseley@intel.com>
Cc: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [ECOS] Changing RedBoot's sys_read() function
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 19:31:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1122060691.8734.13.camel@gienah.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C863B68032DED14E8EBA9F71EB8FE4C207F62C3E@azsmsx406>

On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 10:08 -0700, Moseley, Drew wrote:
> I am considering making some changes to the sys_read() function in
> packages/redboot/current/src/syscall.c to better handle console I/O.
> (ie local echo, backspace handling, etc.)
> 
> Is this function only called for console I/O?  If not is there some way
> to 
> determine if the fd being read is the console?

sys_read() assumes that it only gets called to read stdin in which case
fd is 0. As long as sys_open() always returns an error, that's a good
assumption.

--Mark




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2005-07-22 17:08 Moseley, Drew
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