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From: smarq@ucthpx.uct.ac.za (S Marquard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: [FreeBSD 2.0-950112-SNAP] - SIO bug, driver discards chars
Date: 22 Jan 1995 11:14:48 +0200
Organization: University of Cape Town
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iverson@lionheart.com (Tim Iverson) writes:

>There is a bug in the SIO driver that causes it to discard characters if
>the tty is in raw mode and there is no space left in the clist - even when
>RTS/CTS is enabled.  The SIO man page calls this a bug in the application
>code; what idiocy.

Could someone describe this is more "end-user-ish" (:-) terms?
Under what circumstances does the bug manifest itself? How serious is it?
Is it likely to affect UUCP transfers, if so how?

Stephen Marquard
smarq@ucthpx.uct.ac.za