A week ago I was working on a project, using arduino + max and saw strange behaviour.

The arduino sends data with 115200 baud to max, everything works fine, but when I close max computer hangs, even if I close the serial object before.

So my solution was to send a command from max to arduino to stop streaming with closebang.

Can anyone explain what actually happens? And why close doesn't help?

A week ago I was working on a project, using arduino + max and saw strange behaviour.
The arduino sends data with 115200 baud to max, everything works fine, but when I close max computer hangs, even if I close the serial object before.

So my solution was to send a command from max to arduino to stop streaming with closebang.
Can anyone explain what actually happens? And why close doesn't help?

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