Timeout on serial port read
Bruno Pape
root at sgzh.uucp
Tue May 8 03:55:15 AEST 1990
In article <59374 at sgi.sgi.com> vjs at sgi.com (Vernon Schryver) writes:
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>The VTIME parameter is in units of tenths of seconds, not seconds.
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>The FIONBIO ioctl works on IRIX TTY's, to give "non-block" I/O.
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>Using select(2) is almost certainly the best solution.
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Opps, tenths of a seconds it is.
Non-blocking I/O and non-blocking with a delay are slightly different.
Select seems like overkill for simple tty I/O. Why is it almost
certainly the best solution? To all non-blocking tty I/O problems?
Just wondering,
Bruno
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