Re: [9fans] more serial questions

[Gorka Guardiola <paurea@gmail.com>]

I didn't add that, your guess is as good as mine.

G.

> On Mar 25, 2014, at 1:12 AM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> 
> i'm just asking questions, because i don't have the experience the author
> clearly has.
> 
> i'm looking at this comment
> 
>        /*
>         * if we encounter a long run of continuous read
>         * errors, do something drastic so that our caller
>         * doesn't just spin its wheels forever.
>         */
> 
> long run is defined to be 10000 for the lifetime of all serial ports.  i'm thinking
> of making this 5 in a row per call, and checking for a few more cant continue
> type messages.  was there a particular device that might spit out hundreds of
> consecutive read timeouts (that's the only error this works for) before returning
> something?  could the same thing happen on write?
> 
> - erik
>