pty bugs & features

[Andy Holyer]

>>>>> On 29 Aug 90 15:44:50 GMT, Leslie Mikesell <les at chinet.chi.il.us> said:

les> ....  The real problem is when you have
les> placed a long distance call to or from a modem on a unix machine and
les> pick up a ^S from line noise.  I've even seen cases where the device
les> driver would lock up so that even a kill -9 wouldn't release the
les> process and there was no way to drop the call without physical access to
les> the modem.

I've seen this problem quite frequently using terminals with XON/XOFF
handshaking - I find that few sites are willing to pay for more than
4-wire cabling IMH experience. A notable offender seems to be GNU's
bash shell. On occasions the only way to unhang a line is to reboot
(sometimes, I've even known a *power*down* to be necessary :-( )
Is there a less drastic solution?

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