Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 22:23:17 -0600 (MDT) From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu> Cc: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, tom@sdf.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tty-level buffer overflows Message-ID: <199708040423.WAA26367@rocky.mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <19970803112147.21483@crh.cl.msu.edu> References: <19970803025730.57257@crh.cl.msu.edu> <199708030852.SAA13473@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> <19970803112147.21483@crh.cl.msu.edu>
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> > Your application is busted; data is arriving faster than your app is reading > > it, and the kernel has run out of patience and started throwing the data > > away. > > Im afraid not, the application is a software Upload, with a singly byte ack > every 2k, if the serial port cant handle that, theres a problem. I would > presume that if the buffer is full, a write() should block. You've got a 16 byte FIFO, and you're wondering why it's overflowing when your application is trying to get 2K at a time? You've *GOT* to be kidding, right? Nate
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