Re: bin/47877 (tip(1) does not disable flow control)

[Michael van Elst <mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 07:50:00AM +0000, David Holland wrote:
>   >  The problem is fixed. The change however also modifies the IXANY flag
>   >  which is questionable.
>  
>  That seems reasonable to me... it seems unlikely that anyone's going
>  to be using tip(1) over a vintage modem where IXANY allows line noise
>  to mess things up.

It's not about line noise. When xon/xoff is used for flow control,
any bidirectional protocol may prevent it from functioning and you
have to rely on that protocol to recover from loss of input characters.

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                                Michael van Elst
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