Hi,
Michael Stone:
> >If hardware flow control is turned on by mistake, and a character is
> >sent, it is impossible to turn flow control off again using stty(1)
> >because stty uses tcsetattr(3) with TCSADRAIN, which waits for output
> >to be empty. Obviously that's not going to happen...
> >
> >The appended patch fixes this by adding a new flag "-i" (or "--immed")
> >which causes stty to use TCSANOW instead.
>
> Hmm. Does this happen often?
I've seen it a few times.
A modem with aggressive error checking on a bad line can sit there for
minutes, futilely retrying and incurring phone charges...
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