Re: Unicode console patch

Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk (qrczak@knm.org.pl)
Sun, 31 Jan 1999 09:10:58 +0100 (CET)


On 31 Jan 1999, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> Please don't extend TIOCLINUX. It was a bad mistake to begin with,
> and furthermore, we're trying to move away from ioctl()s (ioctl()s
> were used because most changes affected *all* consoles. Per-console
> changes should be done with escape codes.)

Is it possible to read e.g. the cursor position without flushing the input
buffer?

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