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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
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Subject: Re: close() on a modem taking a long time?
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 1997 01:11:32 +0000 (GMT)
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In-Reply-To: <199712202349.AAA05219@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Dec 21, 97 00:49:37 am
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> >> It's probably better to fix the application to wait until all output
> >> has been drained.
> > 
> > Better to fix the driver to ignore/assert RTS/CTS while DCD remains off,
> > and to take an on-to-off DCD transition as indicating "flush output to
> > null".
> 
> You're only considering modems.  How would you force a mouse into
> delivering DCD or CTS?  (That's where the problem happened to me
> recently, XFree86's server attempted to send something to my mouse,
> but the mouse, being a plain old MouseSystems one, is only receptive
> to cat's signals but not to RS-232 signals.)

If the port ignored it, then the mouse would work... 8-).

					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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