libserial-newlnx: ASYNC_LOW_LATENCY patch reverted Reports from Das Signal indicate that loadtools performance on Debian is about the same as on Slackware, and that including or omitting the ASYNC_LOW_LATENCY patch from Serg makes no difference. Because the patch in question does not appear to be necessary, it is being reverted until and unless someone other than Serg reports an actual real-world system on which loadtools operation times are slowed compared to the Mother's Slackware reference and on which Slackware-like performance can be restored by setting the ASYNC_LOW_LATENCY flag.

/*
 * Both arguments to fc-cal2text must name directories that already exist.
 * Here we implement the check for this requirement.
 */

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>

check_directory_exists(pathname)
	char *pathname;
{
	struct stat st;

	if (stat(pathname, &st) < 0) {
		perror(pathname);
		exit(1);
	}
	if (!S_ISDIR(st.st_mode)) {
		fprintf(stderr, "error: %s is not a directory\n", pathname);
		exit(1);
	}
	return(0);
}