character device canonical mode

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Fri Jan 14 09:34:41 GMT 2022


On Jan 13 12:37, Norton Allen wrote:
> Apparently Cygwin does not support canonical mode on serial devices.

I just checked, you're right, ICANON has never been implemented for
serial I/O.  The code hasn't seen a lot of love since its inception.
It has been added pre-2000 mainly to support GDB remote debugging
of embedded systems.


Corinna


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