Subject: Re: xterm jump scrolling on sparc64
To: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.de>
From: Klaus Klein <kleink@mibh.de>
List: tech-x11
Date: 06/01/2004 18:24:49
On Tuesday 01 June 2004 13:28, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> In article <20040530230430.GB6706@shrubbery.net>,
> john heasley <heas@shrubbery.net> writes:
> > Question before I commit this though, what platform/OS takes a long for
> > FIONREAD? SUS says int and but I found miscellaneous references on google
> > suggesting that there are some which use long (IRIX on LP64 and apprently
> > windows).
>
> [...]
>
> But if SUS indeed says that FIONREAD expects an "int" argument you
> should better write like this:
Surely I must be missing something; the Single UNIX Specification
(if that's what's being referred to) has concerned itself with
ioctl() only in the context of STREAMS, and there's no such thing
as FIONREAD in the standard.
- Klaus