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Subject: Re: tcdrain
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On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 03:04:41PM +0200, Karel Kulhavy wrote:
>It looks like tcdrain in cygwin doesn't wait until data are transmitted,
>but just drains the software buffer, and doesn't drain the buffer in the
>16550A chip. Can you please confirm that this is really how Cygwin
>works?

The source code for the tcdrain call is in fhandler_serial.cc.  You should
be able to satisfy your curiousity by looking at that.

cgf

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