Re: serial flow control appears broken

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Lee Howard wrote:

> >The serial drivers have nothing to do about it -- all they can do is pushing
> >data upstream, to the discipline driver.  They can provide an interface to
> >hardware flow control features though, if implemented by a given UART.
> >
> 
> Thank you for this clarification.  So I should have more correctly been saying
> that "tty flow control appears broken".  Right?

 Probably.  It might be, as Alan suggested, that it is meant to work, but 
the latency kills it.

  Maciej
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