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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!quagga.ru.ac.za!ucthpx!ucthpx!not-for-mail From: smarq@ucthpx.uct.ac.za (S Marquard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: [FreeBSD 2.0-950112-SNAP] - SIO bug, driver discards chars Date: 22 Jan 1995 11:14:48 +0200 Organization: University of Cape Town Lines: 14 Message-ID: <3ft7m8$7op@ucthpx.uct.ac.za> References: <D2s65p.AKt@lionheart.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ucthpx.uct.ac.za iverson@lionheart.com (Tim Iverson) writes: >There is a bug in the SIO driver that causes it to discard characters if >the tty is in raw mode and there is no space left in the clist - even when >RTS/CTS is enabled. The SIO man page calls this a bug in the application >code; what idiocy. Could someone describe this is more "end-user-ish" (:-) terms? Under what circumstances does the bug manifest itself? How serious is it? Is it likely to affect UUCP transfers, if so how? Stephen Marquard smarq@ucthpx.uct.ac.za