>Date: 19 Feb 1997 02:51 +0100
>From: bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org (Christoph Badura)

>raeburn@raeburn.ORG (Ken Raeburn) writes:
>
>>This call uses TCSAFLUSH, my guess is that's why it's waiting.  But if
>>it's waiting to write characters to the modem, and it's in a mode
>>where it can't write characters because the modem has hung up, maybe
>>it should be discarding the pending output instead?
>
>With TCSAFLUSH it is supposed to flush the characters when setting the
>modes.

It flushes all input characters; all output characters must drain.
See termios(4) for details.
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