Re: man termios

[Peter Hurley]

On 03/21/2014 11:41 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> > > Peter, do you agree that Linux appears to differ from POSIX here? (Not
> > > sure if you tried my test program to verify...)
> >
> >
> > I did run the test program to validate that it's observed behavior is that
> > implemented by Linux, with which I'm very familiar.
> > I don't have a test setup for other *nixes.
> >
> > I would be interested to know the results of
> >
> >    ./noncanonical 0 5 3 0
> >    hello
>
> Solaris 10:
> read() completes when 5 bytes received.
> OpenBSD 5.4
> read() completes when 5 bytes received.

Ok, Linux does the same.

> > and
> >
> >    ./noncanonical 0 5 3 2
> >     hel
>
> Solaris
> read blocks()
> OpenBSD
> read blocks

If you type fast, Linux will complete this read() with 3 bytes.

> Plus my test case where Linux differs:
>
> ./noncanonical 100 5 3 0
>
> Linux: read() returns after 3 bytes input
>
> Solaris: read() returns only after 5 bytes input
> OpenBSD: read() returns only after 5 bytes input

Ok, thanks for testing.

> > on other platforms.
> >
> > With respect to POSIX compliance, it's hard to say. I'm not sure the
> > spec contemplates the degenerate case where max bytes < MIN. And
>
> Well, given the way the other implementations behave, I think it does
> contemplate it, because it carefull avoids talking about the number of
> bytes requested by read() in that case.

I agree that's certainly a valid interpretation.
I'll go back and see if this is a regression but I doubt it.

> > specifically
> > with regard to terminal i/o behavior, POSIX is essentially ex post facto,
> > and is really documenting existing behavior.
> >
> > Other than the degenerate case of max bytes < MIN, is there any other
> > variation between Solaris and Linux in non-canonical mode?
>
> The only one I've seen is the one I noted. I haven't tested too
> exhaustively though.

Thanks again. Please feel free to direct mail my way if you find other
variation.

Regards,
Peter Hurley

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