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...
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