Details
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Bug
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Resolution: Done
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P1: Critical
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4.8.5, 5.1.0
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None
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Windows 7 64bit
OSX 10.8.4
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Ic8d8e3806fd4863c2720ffb83d5c19eae54d57f0
Description
waitForReadReady(timeout) may return before timeout with TRUE though there is no data available or it may return FALSE though data is available. Applies to USB-to-RS232 converters (FTDI chip), evtl. also to COM1&2, on Windows 7 64bit and MacOSx 10.8.5.
This is a more general case of https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-31918 which is already closed.
i have attached a test prog with a short howto in siotest.cpp.