ioctl (Problem identified)

Allan Christian Long acl3k at agate.cs.Virginia.EDU
Sat May 25 06:07:35 AEST 1991


	First, I'd like to thank everyone who replied to my postings
(via email and postings), as well as the people at SGI technical support.
I called them a couple times and everyone I talked to was very helpful.
	As a result of some source code an SGI engineer sent me,
I discovered that the problem was the compiler.  I was using GNU gcc,
which for some reason or another doesn't compile the ioctl FIONREAD
call correctly.  After recompiling that part of my code with the MIPS
cc compiler, the ioctl problem went away.  (Now I have another problem,
but that's a different story.  Has anybody ever connected a Polhemus
to an Iris?)
	I guess this goes to show you can't trust any piece of software.

- Chris


A. Chris Long, Jr.			acl3k at virginia.edu
If only we could overcome our tools...



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