pty bugs & features

[Steve Alexander]

In article <3954 at auspex.auspex.com> guy at auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
>>Yet it is worthless for user purposes if you can't make it infinite.  Why
>>can't you change this number?
>
>Ask AT&T, it was their idea.  I think I tried to sell them on having an
>"ioctl" to change it at one point.

System V Release 4.0 has the I_SETCLTIME ioctl, which allows one to change
the close wait time on the stream.  I believe that the time is specified
in milliseconds.  There is also I_GETCLTIME which does what you'd expect.
I guess Guy should move into sales...

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