Re: [gpsd-dev] Hang on Linux/Ubuntu

[Eric S. Raymond]

Hal Murray <address@hidden>:
> If nothing else, I'd expect some sort of timeout mechanism.  Test code should 
> print out helpful messages when things don't work as expected.

I have in fact been thinking about how to implement something like this.

> Eric: Should we track down where it was hanging, and understand why?

Few things would please me more.  But this sort of thing (edge cases in
tty layer behavior) is *notoriously* hard to root-cause or even
characterize.
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