HOW DO I UNBLOCK A SERIAL LINE ON SUN3?
bill birch
bill at ibmpcug.co.uk
Wed Nov 15 09:34:49 AEST 1989
In article <21267 at adm.BRL.MIL> charles at sifvx6.sinet.slb.com writes:
> I have a problem on a SUN3/60 OS3.5 serial link from /dev/ttya to a plotter
> which uses XON/XOFF for flow control. If someone cycles the plotter power in
> mid-plot (eg to unblock the paper feed), the serial line hangs because the SUN
> is waiting for XON (^Q) and the plotter is not clever enough to send XON when
I have had similar problems in the past, but with the Baud rate.
The trick is to sleep a process on the device thusly:
sleep 1000000 >/dev/tyya &
What happens is that when the last process that was using the device
Hope this helps.
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