Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: How can I read keyboard without stopping Message-ID: <1988Aug21.020010.12745@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <813@ms3.UUCP> <1246@mcgill-vision.UUCP> <1988Aug15.130550.8571@ateng.uucp> <1267@ficc.UUCP> <5558@rpp386.UUCP> Date: Sun, 21 Aug 88 02:00:10 GMT In article <5558@rpp386.UUCP> jfh@rpp386.UUCP (The Beach Bum) writes: >stat() is implemented by taking chunks of the inode table enty and stuffing >that into a "struct stat" thingy. i believe the number of characters >queued in a pipe was a side effect (read `feature') of the implementation >of pipes, and probably not intentional. Possibly so in the beginning, but it *was* documented in V7. -- Intel CPUs are not defective, | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology they just act that way. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu