Timeout on serial port read

[Bruno Pape]

In article <59374 at sgi.sgi.com> vjs at sgi.com (Vernon Schryver) writes:
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>The VTIME parameter is in units of tenths of seconds, not seconds.
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>The FIONBIO ioctl works on IRIX TTY's, to give "non-block" I/O.
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>Using select(2) is almost certainly the best solution.
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Opps, tenths of a seconds it is.

Non-blocking I/O and non-blocking with a delay are slightly different.

Select seems like overkill for simple tty I/O.  Why is it almost
certainly the best solution?  To all non-blocking tty I/O problems?

Just wondering,

Bruno