Re: patch: fast console output ioctl(PIO_DISPLAY)

Tuukka Toivonen (tuukkat@ees2.oulu.fi)
Sat, 18 Jul 1998 00:29:30 +0300 (EET DST)


On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Zachary Amsden wrote:

>code, but it sounded like you what you were doing. Did you properly
>deal with non 80x25 tty widths and heights?

Yes. I'm nowadays using.. was it 116x51? Something weird anyway.

>>And what should I do if(tty->stopped) ?
>
>block the calling process until tty is no longer stopped

How? Somehow I feel that
while (tty->stopped) { };
Is not the right way 8-)

[btw, thanks for people who pointed out a better way to do
what I tried to do... havent tested that yet though ]

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