"read" bug in Cygwin 1.5.16?

[Brian Dessent]

Christopher Faylor wrote:

> There was a problem with setting VMIN == VTIME == 0 on ttys/ptys.  I've
> just checked in a fix.  It will be in today's snapshot, when it shows
> up: http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ .

Peter Farley wrote:

>     kbattr.c_cc[VMIN] = 0;
>     kbattr.c_cc[VTIME] = 0;

If you're always using select() to read, you could set VMIN = 1 as a
workaround if you need to support versions of Cygwin prior to the above
fix.

Brian

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