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Date:      Tue, 14 Jan 1997 11:35:12 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        brandon@cold.org (Brandon Gillespie)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: select() on a serial device--ignoring OS buffered chars?
Message-ID:  <199701141835.LAA00316@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970114104018.3232A-100000@cold.org> from "Brandon Gillespie" at Jan 14, 97 10:48:47 am

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> I have a function that does a read on a serial device that is set as
> non-blocking.  I have a monitor on the line and I KNOW the OS has the
> characters sent to it, and they are likely buffered, but this function is
> not behaving correctly.

Are you sure?

Are they buffered in an OS buffer, or are they buffered in the UART FIFO?

If the UART FIFO, are you using a National 16550AF or better?

Or are you using a UART that won't auto-flush it's FIFO to the
host until the FIFO is full?

Hopefully, answering these questions will help you understand the
answer to yours... probably your request belongs on the -questions
list, not -hackers.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.



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