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Using COM ports with read/write OR streams with fread etc?

Using COM ports with read/write OR streams with fread etc?

Post by Oskar Sande » Wed, 07 Oct 1998 04:00:00



I'm using a linux configured PC to read data from 4 comports. The
application i supposed to read datapackets of ca 100bytes arriving in a
rate of about 100Hz to each com port. Occationaly, controll & data
requst messages will be sent by the PC to the sources. My main task is
to do quite heavy computations on this data, so I want the
communications to be as effective as possible.

I've used the low level read/write commando. And select to give an
interrupt when sothing is available to read on a com port. This worked
fine for a 1Hz data rate, but when i cranked up the rate, it seems like
I loose caracters while I'm trying to write. I's the write command safe
to use, or will incoming data be thashed when i write?

Do I have to use buffering on the ports (i.e. vbuf and streams) or do I
just simply have to be more carefull when writing, so I'm not thrashing
an incoming message (Using select call to se if it is possible to write
at a given instant)

Best Regards

Oskar Sander

 
 
 
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Using COM ports with read/write OR streams with fread etc?

Post by A.van.Kesse » Wed, 07 Oct 1998 04:00:00


Check the serial line settings/handshake, etc.
Also check the machine load. Under heavy CPU load (assuming correct handshake)
there would not be lost characters: the system would just throttle down to
lower serial throughput.
What happens next depends on how the peripherals react to beeing unable to
send the data they want: they could drop bytes, packets, overrun ring buffers,
or whatever.

--
Happy hacking,

Adriaan van Kessel.
Ingres DBA, C/Unix hacker

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