On Mon, May 27, 2024 at 11:02:06PM -0400, Mouse wrote: > > I have no idea if any such device or file ever have had such a > > distinction. > > Possibly nobody except System V (or possibly its direct ancestors) ever > did. My impression is that it's a STREAMS thing, but that's a fuzzy > impression, mostly coming from manpage notes ("The distinction between > some of the fields in the events and revents bitmasks is really not > useful without STREAMS.").
Yes, all this stuff is from STREAMS originally, that's why it's poorly documented with vague semantics... -- David A. Holland dholl...@netbsd.org