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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!swidir.switch.ch!news.grnet.gr!btnet-feed2!news.netlink.co.uk!easynet-uk!newsfeed.easynet.co.uk!news-feed.inet.tele.dk!news.radio.cz!CESspool!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!ddsw1!not-for-mail From: les@MCS.COM (Leslie Mikesell) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Date: 12 Feb 1997 13:34:04 -0600 Organization: /usr/lib/news/organi[sz]ation Lines: 34 Message-ID: <5dt5vc$g5u$1@Mercury.mcs.net> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <5dfpah$cre@innocence.interface-business.de> <5dindm$42i$1@venus.mcs.net> <5dn3rv$pr7@innocence.interface-business.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: mercury.mcs.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:158134 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2481 In article <5dn3rv$pr7@innocence.interface-business.de>, J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de> wrote: >Sure, sending a mail to bugs@freebsd.org might have got you the same >in a simpler way. But we _do_ follow Usenet, as the time permits. >(I've got a day job as well, even though i'm right now posting from >there.) Thanks, I'll know next time. >> Agreed, it wouldn't be an unreasonable task to change, but I have several >> programs (phone smdr, a bunch of wire services including real time commodity >> exchange data that get turned into screen updates and multiplexed out on a >> satellite uplink) and need to keep them working under sysV also for a > >All recent SysV's do have termios as well. Only SVR3.2's didn't, but >they are a very aged technology these days. Unfortunately, the machines in question are 3B2's with SVR3.2. But they do handle lots of serial ports at speeds of 9600 baud and less, and some have had uptimes of more than a year so I can't complain too much about them. >Again, if you care to contribute a termio emulation layer for FreeBSD, >we don't mind including it into libcompat. Nobody has been pressed to >do this yet. At this point I've kind of settled into using Linux. I just have this nagging suspicion that tcp connections don't recover gracefully on a link that has congestion problems and then clears up. Is there some way to test this behaviour? Les Mikesell les@mcs.com