Console, AGAIN!!!

Thomas Doerfler Thomas.Doerfler at imd-systems.de
Wed Nov 10 17:51:25 UTC 2004


Hi Etienne,

> Hi Thomas,
> Guess what, still can make that %?/%/%/%% console transfer thing works! 
> 
> Yes now I know more about how it works. Yes I can manage to transfer a
> complete file and every single bits are OK (I verified). BUT, the big
> problem is that it doesn't work most of the time (I tought it was about
> 85% "efficiency", but I was testing small files. For bigger ones, you
> almost have a 100% chance that it will hang somewhere). And it still
> hang still in the infamous semaphore! 

You canadians really seem to like nasty bugs ;->

Etienne, I really would like to try out your protocol code on my 
MC68360 machine. Do you think it is portable enough as long as I 
have a termios-based tty driver and a (IMFS) file system?

wkr,
Thomas.


> 
> I know I don't give a lot of info. But any new idea how this can happen?
> How come it wait forever? What is wrong with all that!
> 
> 
> Etienne Fortin
> Sensio

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