[fpc-pascal] (Unix) serial port handling

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Henry Vermaak wrote:
> On 08/03/11 10:30, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>> Can anybody say whether there is a good reason that serial.pp lacks a
>> function to read the CD signal?
>>
>> Is SerFlush, which calls fpfsync, intended to discard input data, output
>> data or both?
> 
> fsync just makes sure all the in-kernel caches are written to the 
> device.  Flushing input data is just a matter of reading it.

Thanks for that Henry. Obviously there's scope for confusion here with 
the kernel's tcflush() and tcdrain() functions, where tcflush discards 
input and/or output data.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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