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From: egray@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (Emmet P. Gray)
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Subject: Re: PCOMM hangs modem driver
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Date: 20 Jun 91 16:28:18 GMT
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> I'm using PCOMM 1.2.10 with ISC unix 2.0.
> About once in 5 times, pcomm will not disconnect and/or exit.
> The pcomm program freezes and so does my login session.
> kill -9 <pcomm pid> does nothing.  We must reboot!
> I can't continue to use pcomm until this is resolved, and I really
> hate to go back to kermit!

This sounds like a bug I found in Dell's version of SVR4...  There is a
bug in the ldterm streams emulation of termio(7) that prevents the
TIXONC ioctl() from working.  Until there is a fix (rumored to be in
SVR4v3), I just changed Pcomm's flow control to NONE.

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