[rescue] Understanding Err#25 ENOTTY ?

[Jonathan Patschke]

On Mon, 7 Jul 2014, Mouse wrote:

> Actually, it looks to me like evidence that the file is being read with
> stdio, which attempts a tcgetattr() or something like it on each fd, so
> it can set buffering as appropriate.  (I'm not sure how necessary this
> is for read-only streams, but some stdios seem to do it for them too.)

I did not know that fopen()/fread() did that internally; I don't
immediately see that in the Illumos source.  However, it's pretty hard to
read, so I might be missing something.

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