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- From: kew@timesink.spk.wa.us (Keith Walker)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Problems with select() and serial ports
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.034054.4016@timesink.spk.wa.us>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 03:40:54 GMT
- Organization: None that I'm aware of.
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- I recently got 386bsd 0.1 going on my machine and not too long after that
- installed Chris Demetriou's serial driver, which really works good in spite
- of the much maligned copyright :-)
-
- But, the select() call doesn't seem to work right when calling the serial
- ports. The behaviour is easy to replicate; just press ESC when in vi. The
- escape will not be recognized until another character is received. So, it
- seems the timeout isn't working right when there's only one character to be
- read.
-
- Hmmm.
-
- I am not a kernel guru, nor do I play one on the net. I'm hoping someone
- else out there (maybe cgd?) will have some idea of what the problem is or
- maybe even have a fix.
-
- Thanks again to Bill, Lynne *and* Chris. Without cgd's serial driver, the
- com ports are essentially unusable.
-
- --
- kew@timesink.spk.wa.us | Ah, the early space program:
- Keith Walker | The moon, the planets, the stars!
- | We were going to do *everything*!
- (509) 466-9384 | Now, it's everything we can do. :-(
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