Maximum values for MIN and TIME?

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1 total messages Started by Ian Lance Taylor Fri, 14 Jun 1991 01:42

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Author: Ian Lance Taylor
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1991 01:42

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Submitted-by: ian@airs.com (Ian Lance Taylor)

I want to read up to 4096 characters from the terminal in
non-canonical mode.  I want to wait until the characters arrive (with
a timeout).  It seems sensible to me to set MIN to the number of
characters I want to read and use alarm for a timeout.  But what is
the maximum value that I can set MIN to on a POSIX system?  Does the
standard specify this anywhere?  On System V the maximum is probably
255, but it's pretty easy to imagine an implementation for which the
maximum is 127.  I assume the maximum value is <= MAX_INPUT; are there
any other constraints?  I've only seen the 1988 copy of the standard,
so apologies if this is covered in the 1990 revision.
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