Re: [PATCH 0/1] MR8454: ntdll: Don't skip synchronous read when serial read timeout is infinite.

[Alex Henrie (＠alexhenrie)]

On Mon Jun 30 19:34:13 2025 +0000, Elizabeth Figura wrote:
> This seems fine, but I'm concerned, because I think we probably want to
> replace this code flow with something more like what sockets have, in
> order to make sure that requests are handled in a FIFO way. What problem
> was the delay causing?

For some reason, skipping the synchronous read causes the app to not receive any bytes. Although the app is meant to connect to an ancient TI-99 computer, you can see the problem by simply connecting the app's serial port to another serial port with a null modem.