Requesting help on intricacies of duplicated file descriptors.

[Rich Felker]

On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 05:05:13PM +0200, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> > Instead, what is my best approach to read a minimum of 1 byte 
> > from the stream, 
> > blocking only if needed to get that first byte?
> 
> hmm, check termios(VMIN and VTIME)

This only applies if the stream is a tty. But yes, these settings may
need to be correct in order to obtain the desired behavior from ttys.

Rich