From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 17 16:40:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA25186 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 17 Apr 1996 16:40:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA25181 for ; Wed, 17 Apr 1996 16:40:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id QAA03028; Wed, 17 Apr 1996 16:39:14 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199604172339.QAA03028@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Keyboard bindings To: richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (Richard Chang) Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 16:39:14 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Richard Chang" at Apr 17, 96 04:04:07 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Discard is a cannonical processing capability, not a transported > > (ie: capable of being sent out of band) signal. > > > > Only transported signals work like you want ^O to work... you need > > to get a faster link or reduce time between packet reception > > and output buffer flushing to make it work. It's not done by > > default because (a) it would slow down average throughput, and > > (b) no one but VMS/.TOPS-20 hold-overs use ^O. ;-). > > > > > > Alternately, you could reabstract the ^O implementation to make it > > into a signal... lotta work, that. > > Hmmm, okay... Isn't a 10GBps link fast enough? ;-) Someone on > the list just mentioned to do stty discard undef and that seems to work > but the stty manpage doesn't mention anything at what discard is. Ah. I see. It was being applied locally, even in raw mode. This is a termios bug, and should be reported. (10GBps is too fast... your uffers are probably always full). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.