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Re: A few more questions and a one more problem



On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 07:56:49PM +0200, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
> Problem :
> 
> printf () needs mutex'ing on Hurd (cthread)
> It didn't need it on Linux (pthread)
> And yes, I #defined _REENTRANT

The Hurd uses libio, which indeed isn't thread safe. When we switch to stdio
this should not be a problem anymore.

> 2. What is correct way of obtaining kbd scancodes and how far I went
>    wrong trying to 'settrans /dev/kbd /hurd/storeio --no-cache kbd ; cat /dev/kbd'

kbd requires streamdev at least (it is not a block device). Look at Okuji's
streamdev (on alpha.gnu.org).

(A more low level approach to keyboard scanning can be found in colortext,
IIRC).

Thanks,
Marcus

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