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Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 10:56:16 -0700
From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: /dev/cuaa broken ?
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Bruce Evans wrote:
> I haven't found the bug yet.  It was first fixed relatively recently
> in rev.1.152 (1996/11/30) of sio.c.  Until then, you had to have waits
> in your program or dtrwait large enough to avoid loss of data on close.
> But dtrwait didn't help for the ioctls that need to wait for output to
> drain.

Shouldn't he just disable the FIFO for this usage?

-- Terry

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