Date: Sat, 27 Dec 1997 01:11:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: close() on a modem taking a long time? Message-ID: <199712270111.SAA01101@usr04.primenet.com> 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 --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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