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Asynchronous IO for serial port on Linux

Post by Yoong Hor Men » Wed, 12 Feb 2003 15:35:39



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Hi:

I would like the signal SIGPOLL (or SIGIO) to be sent to the application
when something is available on the serial port.   So I tried to use
asynchronous IO for serial port on Linux, but the function ioctl always
returns the error "invalid argument".  Here is the code:

 /* ... */

  /* open the serial port and obtain the file descriptor */
  fd = open("/dev/ttyS0", O_RDWR | O_NONBLOCK | O_NDELAY | O_NOCTTY, 0)
  if (fd == -1)
    if (ioctl(fd, I_SETSIG, S_RDNORM) == -1)
      (void) perror("Error ioctl: ");

 /* setting up the poll events, etc */

 /* ... */

 Could someone help me on this? Does linux 2.4.10 support asynchronous
IO on serial port (a stream device)

Thank
Hor Meng

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