I didn't add that, your guess is as good as mine. G.
> On Mar 25, 2014, at 1:12 AM, erik quanstrom <quans...@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 >
