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- From: bvs@BitBlocks.com (Bakul Shah)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: com woes
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.210501.17721@BitBlocks.com>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 21:05:01 GMT
- References: <1992Aug9.085755.6237@news.tu-graz.ac.at>
- Organization: Bit Blocks, Inc.
- Lines: 33
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- chmr@fstgds01.tu-graz.ac.at (Christoph Robitschko) writes:
-
- >I had the problem with select() not working on com ports. I got no
- >response from a post regarding this one, so I started to look into it
- >myself. I found out that the com driver calculates unit = minor(dev) -1;
- >This has the following implications:
- > /dev/com1 corresponds to COM0, /dev/com2 to COM1 (very confusing
- > in kernel messages)
- > It is incompatible with the config file entries com1 at..., com2 at...
- > Unpredictible results will occur if someone puts a com0 at.. in
- > his config file.
- > It is incompatible with the DOS usage of COM1, COM2 (But who cares 8-)
- > ttselect() calculates unit = minor(dev), and uses this as an index in
- > com_tty. Because this index is different from that used
- > in the com driver, select() on /dev/com1 looks at
- > /dev/com2 and select() on /dev/com2 looks at an undefined
- > entry in com_tty and returns always true.
-
- Aha! This explains why when the mouse on COM2 the X server hogs
- the machine, and, why when the mouse is on COM1 its moves and
- button presses are accepted only after hitting a key or some
- activity on COM2. Thanks for the patch! The mouse and the X
- server behave much better now (mouse button presses are still not
- recognized right away but that has something to do with x386Io.c
- -- I'll probably implement either a `mouse' line discipline or
- /dev/mouse, with ioctls to set mouse type etc, so that non X
- programs can also make use of mice).
-
- I have also switched over to using /dev/com0 & /dev/com1 instead
- of /dev/com1 & /dev/com2 (with appropriate changes in the
- /sys/i386/conf/<HOST> and MAKEDEV files).
-
- -- bakul shah <bvs@bitblocks.com>
-