From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 19 14:58:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA29193 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 19 Dec 1997 14:58:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA28517 for ; Fri, 19 Dec 1997 14:53:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id XAA04459 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 19 Dec 1997 23:53:12 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.8/8.8.5) id XAA26562; Fri, 19 Dec 1997 23:33:32 +0100 (MET) Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 23:33:32 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199712192233.XAA26562@uriah.heep.sax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E References: <199712190401.UAA23662@bubba.whistle.com> From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Subject: Re: close() on a modem taking a long time? X-Original-Newsgroups: local.freebsd.hackers To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Archie Cobbs wrote: > Serial ports usually wait for output to finish on a close (I think). > You may be able to disable this feature.. see man termios (HUPCL?). Nope, that's not the solution. comcontrol(8) is, you can set drainwait to a number of seconds you prefer. It's probably better to fix the application to wait until all output has been drained. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)