open("/dev/cuaaX") is slow

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 20:56, Andrew L. Neporada wrote:
> It seems that reopening /dev/cuaaX devices after close() takes exactly
> 3 seconds on FreeBSD 4.10 (sorry, I've no 5.x systems available at the
> moment).
>
> Here is output of attached program:
> open() time: 155 us
> open() time: 2995729 us
> open() time: 2999811 us
> open() time: 2999608 us
> open() time: 2999711 us
> open() time: 2999720 us
> open() time: 2999713 us
> open() time: 2999744 us
> open() time: 2999673 us
> open() time: 2999706 us
>
> Is this 3 second delay necessary? Can I get rid of it?

man comcontrol
Try trimming the dtrwait value back and see how it goes.

(Although I'm not sure why you want to open/close a serial port so frequently)

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