From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 17 17:24:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA28260 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 17 Apr 1996 17:24:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.43.52]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA28253 for ; Wed, 17 Apr 1996 17:23:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from richardc@localhost) by soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.12/8.6.12) id RAA27279; Wed, 17 Apr 1996 17:23:18 -0700 Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 17:23:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Richard Chang To: Terry Lambert cc: terry@lambert.org, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Keyboard bindings In-Reply-To: <199604172339.QAA03028@phaeton.artisoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 17 Apr 1996, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > 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. Hmmm, so is this a known bug? > (10GBps is too fast... your uffers are probably always full). Yep, it seems that way... Richard