> > And in that last vein, a timeout in close() makes way more sense than
> > "stty flushout", just as "stty flushout" makes way more sense than
> > "stty -crtscts -cdtrcts -mdmbuf".
> 
> 	Does "stty flushout" reset the flags after the output has drained
> 	(presumably some arbitrary short time), or does it rely on that
> 	happening on close?

the flags are not persistently changed by the command.