vcs: restore and document initial POLLPRI event
Restore and document the forced initial POLLPRI event reporting when poll() is used for the first time. This used to be the implemented behavior before recent changes. Because of the way poll() is implemented, this prevents losing an event happening between the last read() and the first poll() invocation. Since poll() for /dev/vcs* was not always supported, user space probes for its availability as follows: int fd = open("/dev/vcsa", O_RDONLY); struct pollfd p = { .fd = fd, .events = POLLPRI }; available = (poll(&p, 1, 0) == 1); Semantically, it makes sense to signal the first event as such even if it might be spurious. The screen could be modified, and modified back to its initial state before we get to read it, so users must be prepared for that anyway. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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