[Xastir] bluetooth serial port issues

[Curt, WE7U]

On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, Jason KG4WSV wrote:

> For the first test, I wondered what would happen if the dongle lost
> power.  The answer:  Bad Things.  xastir locked up. hard. as in, kill
> -9 wouldn't kill it.  Yep, managed to create a situation that required
> a reboot to clean up, and that doesn't happen often on my macs.
> 
> So, the xastir related question: is this a problem with serial port
> error handling?

It could be in the Xastir code or could be in the RS232 driver code
(OS).  Perhaps you could do a similar test with Minicom or an OSX
dumb terminal program to see if it locks up in a similiar manner.

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