Making termios.tcdrain() work with threads?

[Donn Cave]

Quoth grante at visi.com (Grant Edwards):
| I've noticed that calling termios.tcdrain(fd) (under Unix)
| blocks all threads instead of just the calling thread.  This is
| making life a bit diffucult for me, so I'm going to take a
| crack at making it work "right".  Before I try, is there any
| particular reason why it should behave the way it does now?

I don't think there could be.  I would guess it's that way
because someone underestimated the need for it, at least from
your perspective obviously.

	Donn Cave, donn at u.washington.edu