[Info-vax] DCL "READ/TIME_OUT=n" from terminal; timer resets if message written to screen

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-05-24, David Jones <osuvman50 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I imagine read/time_out=... is using the timeout feature of the terminal driver
> and not timer ASTs. The timeout is a feature of the wait for interrupt function
> in the kernel, which is why it resets for every character entered (as well as
> breakthru writes).

_If_ that is the case, then the read timeout functionality is broken
IMHO because that is _very_ unexpected behaviour.

Simon.

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