On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, Jason KG4WSV wrote: > 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?
It could be in the Xastir code or could be in the RS232 driver code (OS). Perhaps you could do a similar test with Minicom or an OSX dumb terminal program to see if it locks up in a similiar manner. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
