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- Submitted-by: donn@hpfcrn.fc.hp.com (Donn Terry)
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- POSIX.1 ignored HW flow control for several reasons:
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- 1) No-one asked (loud enough to be heard, anyway).
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- 2) There is no de-facto standard, and the pressure wasn't
- there to invent.
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- 3) It's unclear (at least to me) what the API to that might be.
- (Wouldn't it all be in the wiring of the connector cable?)
- Maybe not, but if it is then it's out of scope because
- that's a HW (in this case EIA) standard. The most POSIX
- could talk about is the API.
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- Proposals always welcome (but be sure it's in scope).
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- Donn Terry
- Speaking only for myself.
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- Volume-Number: Volume 26, Number 39
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