termios and non-blocking write()

[Daniel Néri]

Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill at OARcorp.com> writes:

> Daniel Néri wrote:
>> 
>> I ended up hacking the kernel to use a spare c_cc[] entry as a
>> flag, which if non-zero, provides microsecond VTIME granularity.
                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^
Oops, I meant "millisecond" here...

> The limitation is ultimately the clock tick quantum which is the
> basis for all timing.

Right. The BSD kernel uses microseconds internally so this was no
problem (on modern hardware).



Regards,
   --Daniel


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Daniel Neri
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