Problem detecting and reacting to serial break

[Daniel O'Connor]

On 15/08/2010, at 3:00, Paul Thornton wrote:
> So according to the documentation, the effect of the break should be to
> flush the input and output buffers, and send a SIGINT to my process. The
> buffer doesn't seem to get flushed, and I don't get sent the SIGINT.

It does sounds like it's ignoring your request :(

However you won't get a SIGINT unless the serial port is the controlling terminal of your process (which it won't be if you just open()'d it)

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