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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
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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