Re: write

>I think its related to the fact that the write 
>command uses hardware handshake.
>Maybe a buffered write would make more sense 
>or some ioctl to indicate a timeout.

Hi Andreas,
surely you are right.
I'm not so confortable with ioctl,
but if you or someone else wants to convert write to ioctl call
I'm willing to test it.
Sometimes may happen that cable got disconnected, and we should
take care immediately.
Andrea