Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 10:45:43 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: darknerd AT best DOT com
cc: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT edu DOT ar>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: POSIX Libraries
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On Tue, 18 Nov 1997 darknerd AT best DOT com wrote:

> Various file operations,

Which ones?

> ioctl,

This is supported, but the support is unfinished and therefore
disabled by default (in <sys/ioctl.h>).  To make it work, you will
need to use the DJGPP filesystem extension mechanism for some IOCTL
functions (like TIOCGSIZE etc.).

> terminal,

If you mean termios, it *is* supported.

> and uname()

DJGPP's library has a working `uname'.  Is something wrong with it?