TIOCSTI or workaround?

Mon Jun 26 04:04:00 GMT 2017

On 2017年06月25日 20:58, Greywolf wrote:
> Greetings,
>> I have a program I've writ which takes input and types on to other 
> terminals; however, it seems that under Cygwin, TIOCSTI on a file 
> descriptor doesn't work according to plan -- I get "Invalid argument", 
> but I don't know why.
>> Did a read on ioctl, and saw something about POSIX STREAMS. I thought 
> that paradigm had died a mean nasty ugly death YEARS back, but I'm 
> hoping that's entirely beside the point.
>> Does there exist a way to successfully call
>> ioctl(fd, TIOCSTI, (char *)cp)
>> or is there a workaround?

Addendum:
I used the "standard" TIOCSTI definition of:
#define TIOCSTI	0x5214
[or whatever it is, under Linux -- can't check right now]. Perhaps it 
is just that IOCTL directive which is out of whack. Basic conceptual 
question still stands...
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