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From: bde@kralizec.zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: init problem
Date: 4 Feb 1994 10:04:13 +1100
Organization: Kralizec Dialup Unix Sydney - +61-2-837-1183, v.32bis and v.42bis
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Message-ID: <2irvtdINNcn@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
References: <2ilepq$7o4@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
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In article <2ilepq$7o4@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>,
Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
>
>My kermit process cannot terminated and blocked /dev/sio1 device :-{
>
>
>  UID   PID  PPID CPU PRI  NI   VSZ  RSS WCHAN  STAT TT       TIME COMMAND
>14201  3683     1   0   4   0   696   20 ttyout IE   p4-   0:00.64  (kermit)
>                ^                               ^^

This is usually caused by buggy CTS output flow control in sio.  If CTS
goes low before all output has been flushed, then the output will "never"
complete.  Sometimes the hanging processes can be terminated by turning
off flow control.
-- 
Bruce Evans  bde@kralizec.zeta.org.au