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From: Dan Levin
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1985 06:23
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1985 06:23
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I don't mean to continually pick on Intel, but this one really got
me steamed up. I spent my Saturday bringing up a new line
discipline under Intel XENIX 3.0 (on a 310/286 if anyone cares),
and tonight realized that my problems were due to a faulty manual
entry.
Well, perhaps I am too kind. A lying manual. In particular, the
section of the XENIX device driver guide which discusses the
tty driver and line discipline routines.
ttopen (and thus all LD open routines) take ttopen(tp, dev), not
ttopen(dev, tp) like the man (and most other UN*X's) says.
ttinput takes ttinput(tp, c, flag), not ttinput(c, tp). The flag
is totally undocumented, and seems to be 0 under normal situations.
These answers were ferreted(sp?) out using adb, and are not warranted
in any way. I find it hard to believe that a for-profit company
could publish something so bad, for an operating system that takes
pride in its flexibility.
--
***dan
{allegra,astrovax,princeton}!fisher!djl
The misplaced (That car sure is rusty!) Californian
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site fisher.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!astrovax!fisher!djl From: djl@fisher.UUCP (Dan Levin) Newsgroups: net.bugs Subject: Intel XENIX release 3.0 manual lies... Message-ID: <1351@fisher.UUCP> Date: Mon, 9-Dec-85 01:23:27 EST Article-I.D.: fisher.1351 Posted: Mon Dec 9 01:23:27 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 10-Dec-85 05:01:50 EST Distribution: net Organization: Princeton University.Mathematics Lines: 25 Keywords: Kernel Internals, tty driver, broken