[ On Tuesday, October 17, 2000 at 00:48:10 (-0400), Andrew Brown wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Time to fix a 25 year old misdesign
>
> yeah...and eliminate sockets.  and ttys.  and just about anything else
> on which data arrives asynchronously.

Ah, no, it's not that drastic.  The correct fix is to move the call that
sends SIGIO up into the layer where file descriptors are known about
(just as is already the case for ttys and sockets as a matter of fact!)

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