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Date:      Wed, 17 Apr 1996 16:39:14 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (Richard Chang)
Cc:        terry@lambert.org, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Keyboard bindings
Message-ID:  <199604172339.QAA03028@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.PTX.3.91.960417160159.2439u-100000@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> from "Richard Chang" at Apr 17, 96 04:04:07 pm

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> > 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
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or previous employers.



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