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Date:      Mon, 14 Jan 2002 21:18:22 +0300
From:      "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.org>, Murray Stokely <murray.stokely@windriver.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/ncurses/ncurses/tinfo lib_baudrate.c
Message-ID:  <20020114181822.GA42572@nagual.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20020114200844.C68211@sunbay.com>
References:  <200201141631.g0EGVXs60701@freefall.freebsd.org> <200201141640.g0EGeXk46193@bmah.dyndns.org> <20020114165847.GC41490@nagual.pp.ru> <20020114092547.P27556@windriver.com> <200201141739.g0EHdNQ46868@bmah.dyndns.org> <20020114180219.GA42412@nagual.pp.ru> <20020114200844.C68211@sunbay.com>

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On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 20:08:44 +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 09:02:19PM +0300, Andrey A. Chernov wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 09:39:23 -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
> > > 
> > > And we still don't know what "critical" fix this includes.  "Official
> > > baudrate fix" doesn't say a darn thing about why this commit was
> > > supposedly so important.  It's not covered in the "WARNING" message to
> > > -current either.
> > 
> > ospeed termcap variable value calculation was wrong for *BSD, so any
> > termcap capability which have delay, like xx=<some number>..., may produce
> > wrong delay, too big or too small.
> > 
> Wow!  This was indeed important to fix.
> 
> Could you please tell me how exactly it was broken?

ospeed in *BSD is "short" in the range 0-20 corresponding to speeds
0-921600, but was assigned _without_ any conversion from full speed like
this: ospeed = 460800

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov
http://ache.pp.ru/

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