The control flow is necessary in a terminal because you have two
asynchronous process, one in the terminal and another in the computer,
comunicate between them through a serial line using buffers in every
side. When one of this buffer is full, then it must signal to the
other process because in ot
> Your patch makes st echo STOP and START signals. It is just wrong. If
> the other end says 'STOP', st should stop sending and buffer what it is
> going to send. It is already done in the kernel so we should not worry
> about it even if the other end is a real terminal and user pastes a huge
> buf
On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 02:52:18PM -0400, Alex Pilon wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 02:36:35PM -0300, Amadeus Folego wrote:
> > Alex, you just posted the diffstat, not the patch itself.
>
> I know. I was only proving a point about it being small and trying to
> reduce the noise, though moot now.
> On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 01:05:50PM -0400, Alex Pilon wrote:
> > Is there much appetite for flow control support in
> > what-shall-we-call-it—‘mainline’?
> >
> > I occasionally have a use for it, but would rather not further feature
> > creep into what everybody else uses without darn good reason.
On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 01:05:50PM -0400, Alex Pilon wrote:
> Is there much appetite for flow control support in
> what-shall-we-call-it—‘mainline’?
>
> I occasionally have a use for it, but would rather not further feature
> creep into what everybody else uses without darn good reason.
How do yo
On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 02:36:35PM -0300, Amadeus Folego wrote:
> Alex, you just posted the diffstat, not the patch itself.
I know. I was only proving a point about it being small and trying to
reduce the noise, though moot now. Should have attached it in the first
place. Made it shorter now too.
Alex, you just posted the diffstat, not the patch itself.
Is there much appetite for flow control support in
what-shall-we-call-it—‘mainline’?
I occasionally have a use for it, but would rather not further feature
creep into what everybody else uses without darn good reason.
It's tiny anyway.
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