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

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

The following reply was made to PR bin/47877; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Michael van Elst <mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: bin/47877 (tip(1) does not disable flow control)
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 21:12:14 +0200

 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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