Subject: Re: why must exiting processes wait forever for events that never occur?!?!?!
To: NetBSD Kernel Technical Discussion List <email@example.com>
From: Paul A Vixie <firstname.lastname@example.org>
Date: 11/16/2000 16:46:14
> > And in that last vein, a timeout in close() makes way more sense than
> > "stty flushout", just as "stty flushout" makes way more sense than
> > "stty -crtscts -cdtrcts -mdmbuf".
> Does "stty flushout" reset the flags after the output has drained
> (presumably some arbitrary short time), or does it rely on that
> happening on close?
the flags are not persistently changed by the command.