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 --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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