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- Submitted-by: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
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- >Submitted-by: rstevens@noao.edu (W. Richard Stevens)
- >Anyone know why POSIX.1 ignored hardware flow control?
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- One possible reason is that until very recently -- bearing in mind that
- POSIX.1 settled into its fairly-final form some years back -- any such
- usage of the modem-control lines for flow control was itself a violation
- of the relevant standards (RS232C and friends). No, Virginia, CTS and
- RTS were not assigned to flow control, much less DSR and DTR; they are
- for talking to modems in internationally-standard ways that have nothing
- at all to do with flow control, despite their relevant-sounding names.
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- I believe that RS232D actually has sanctioned use of CTS and RTS for flow
- control, but there's still a distinct lack of standardization in how
- hardware flow control works in real life. I'm inclined to agree that a
- standard way to turn it on and off would be a good thing, even in the
- absence of a precise spec for how it works, but I can see why it was too
- fuzzy an area for POSIX.1 to get into.
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