> > The problem?  When ICANON is turned off and timeout is used
> > to return from a read(2), SCO Unix, or, more accurately, the
> > curses library, does not expect an error return.  Errno is set
> > to EAGAIN and, presumably, the called function returns -1
> > instead of zero [...]

> This sounds a bit familiar to me (a certain POSIX.1 fix comes
> to my mind). Which NetBSD release do you use?

I started with 1.1 then tried it with 1.2.  I haven't tried 1.2.1 yet.

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Lucio de Re (lucio@proxima.alt.za)
Disclaimer: I'm working at getting my opinions to agree with me.