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| author | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2005-06-28 13:40:05 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2005-06-28 13:40:05 +0000 |
| commit | e1151850476780e284ba91b02ab3290fde7aa432 (patch) | |
| tree | b5a0490f48eb733170b78ea997c906d429672512 /HACKING | |
| parent | 0b20190e7489c762b5815780344a9b1c30a63343 (diff) | |
| download | gpsd-e1151850476780e284ba91b02ab3290fde7aa432.tar.gz | |
Eliminate use of FIONREAD.
This may fix the hang-during-backups bug. It may break the Garmin
driver and DGPS handling; this will have to be tested.
Diffstat (limited to 'HACKING')
| -rw-r--r-- | HACKING | 7 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 7 deletions
@@ -200,13 +200,6 @@ times, and the GPS being unplugged and replugged, without leaking file descriptors; also arrange for the GPS to be open when and only when clients are active. -The function is_input_waiting() is not strictly necessary for the most -important use of the low-level interface, which is when it gets called -from the daemon mainline. In that context, FD_ISSET() on the element -of the file-descriptor set representing the GPS would tell us if there -were input waiting. The explicit test is there for other programs -that might call gps_poll() without such a guarantee. - ** Security Issues Between versions 2.16 and 2.20, hotplugging was handled in the most |