Problem detecting and reacting to serial break

[Daniel O'Connor]

On 15/08/2010, at 9:38, Paul Thornton wrote:
> Part of the problem I'm having is that whenever you try and search for
> information/docs about this sort of thing, you're transported back in a
> time warp to the 1980s where people used serial terminals as the norm
> for access and everything seems to be written from that standpoint - not
> from a "I'd like to use the serial port for binary data that has nothing
> to do with interactive login please" perspective...

Yep, definitely time to blow some dust off various old tomes :)

Between 7.x and 8.x the default serial driver changed from sio to uart.

You can recompile your kernel and get sio back and see if that has an effect.

Actually I see you used cuaU0 - that is a USB serial dongle so the driver change would have no effect.

That said the stack was rewritten between 7 & 8 too so perhaps that is related.

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