Porting the BSD 4.3 Tahoe distribution to System V
John E Van Deusen III
jiii at visdc.UUCP
Fri Feb 10 08:08:21 AEST 1989
I am attempting to port some of the BSD 4.3 Tahoe software to a Unix V.0
(Uniplus+) machine. In posting the following questions, I assume that
the porting problems are of interest to more people than just me:
A: Is there is any documentation, especially of the include files,
somewhere in the release. Any man(1) entries?
B: What is the difference between the ioctl(2) system call
utilizing the <termio.h> include file and the ioctl(2) call
using <sttyb.h>. My system has both include files, but they are
clearly not compatible. I have no documentation for sgttyb.h on
my machine and including both in the same source file causes
complaints about redefining things. My version of sgtty.h does
not define CBREAK. Is CBREAK equivalent to RAW?
C: The BDS software, (for libcurses), uses a stty() system call
with a pointer to a sgtty structure. I have stty() in the libc
archive, but it is not documented. The result of using it seems
to be a hung terminal. To make the BSD software work, does
everything have to be rewritten in terms of ioctl() calls and
termio.h defines?
D: The BSD software often deals directly with variables defined in
stdio.h. The scanw.c routine of libcurses, contains the line
junk._flag = _IOREAD|_IOSTRG; What does _IOSTRG mean? Is is
equivalent to _IOMYBUF?
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