Why do you flush the buffer?

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Library to exchange short messages (sensordata, commands) between an Arduino and a software application running on a PC. (Linux, embedded Linux, Windows, OS X)

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Why do you flush the buffer? #20

Open collinalexbell opened 8 years ago

collinalexbell commented 8 years ago

Just curious. I could imagine a situation where a pc would send multiple commands in a burst. You wouldn't want those commands to be dropped.