From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com>
To: Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@parthus.com>, ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [ECOS] short reads on serial port..
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 12:57:00 -0000
Message-id: <20001026145902.A17901@visi.com>
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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?

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Grant Edwards
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