Re: [ECOS] short reads on serial port..

[Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour at redhat dot com>]

Grant Edwards wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 08:16:58PM +0100, Jonathan Larmour wrote:
> 
> > > Should I use select, what does it drag in the way of extra stuff to my
> > > build ... I don't want to have to add POSIX stuff really...
> >
> > Um, serial reads do block by default. If you want to wait on multiple
> > devices but avoid select, you could use multiple threads using blocking
> > reads, which then signal your original thread when data arrives.
> 
> Does the serial driver support select?

In CVS, yes it should.

Jifl
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