character device canonical mode

character device canonical mode

[Norton Allen]

Apparently Cygwin does not support canonical mode on serial devices. On 
input canonical mode will wait for a newline before returning from a 
read(). The bit is cleared/ignored by tcsetattr() as demonstrated by a 
subsequent tcgetattr() in the test program below.

I am wondering if this is because of a fundamental difference between 
the Windows serial device model and POSIX or just because the 
appropriate mappings haven't been implemented. (I have studiously 
avoided Windows programming for decades, and Cygwin has been my enabler!)

My test program:

#include <termios.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

void check_rv(int rv, const char *where) {
   if (rv) {
     printf("Error %s: %d %s\n", where, errno, strerror(errno));
     exit(1);
   }
}

int main(int argc, char **argv) {
   termios termios_p;
   if (argc != 2) {
     printf("Must specify a serial device\n");
     exit(1);
   }
   int fd = open(argv[1], O_RDWR | O_NONBLOCK);
   check_rv(fd == -1, "opening serial device");
   check_rv(tcgetattr(fd, &termios_p), "from tcgetattr()");
   printf("c_lflag = 0x%X after open\n", termios_p.c_lflag);
   termios_p.c_lflag |= ICANON;
   printf("c_lflag = 0x%X to pass to tcsetattr()\n", termios_p.c_lflag);
   check_rv(tcsetattr(fd, TCSANOW, &termios_p), "from tcsetattr()");
   check_rv(tcgetattr(fd, &termios_p), "from 2nd tcgetattr()");
   printf("c_lflag = 0x%X after tcsetattr()\n", termios_p.c_lflag);
   return 0;
}

Re: character device canonical mode

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jan 13 12:37, Norton Allen wrote:
> Apparently Cygwin does not support canonical mode on serial devices.

I just checked, you're right, ICANON has never been implemented for
serial I/O.  The code hasn't seen a lot of love since its inception.
It has been added pre-2000 mainly to support GDB remote debugging
of embedded systems.


Corinna