I'm trying to do some cable reduction on my xastir mobile rig, and I bought a bluetooth/rs232 dongle ( http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/412767-REG/Iogear_GBS301_Serial_Adapter_with_Bluetooth.html ) to play with. If conditions are perfect, it works fine. Since Murphy rides shotgun on balloon chases, though, I decided a little testing under sub-optimal conditions was in order.
rig is xastir 1.8.3, mac os X 10.4.latest on a PPC laptop, Garmin MAP60C. For the first test, I wondered what would happen if the dongle lost power. The answer: Bad Things. xastir locked up. hard. as in, kill -9 wouldn't kill it. Yep, managed to create a situation that required a reboot to clean up, and that doesn't happen often on my macs. So, the xastir related question: is this a problem with serial port error handling? I've had less than pleasant experiences when a USB/232 adapter lost connectivity, but this was much worse. Is it even possible to detect/recover from this condition? I've brought up the subject of retries on serial ports (feature request 1715100), but this probably goes beyond that. ideas? clues? suggestions? -Jason kg4wsv _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
