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From: Steve Hill <steve@navaho.co.uk>
To: PaulJakma <paulj@itg.ie>
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Subject: Re: Serial Console
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On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, PaulJakma wrote:

> > ATM I've found a quick workaround - I
> > use "stty -F /dev/console clocal -crtscts" to turn off the serial flow
> > control at the stawrt of /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit - this seems to work quite
> > well... of course it doesn't stop some program turning flow control back
> > on and ballsing it all up again :)
> 
> yukkk...
> 
> /dev/console having non-blocking semantics sounds much cleaner.

Yep - having a blocking console just seems like plain stupidity :(

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- Steve Hill
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Navaho Technologies Ltd.       Tel: +44-870-7034015


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