I installed the latest tty patch. The call to open a non-existant
terminal device no longer crashes. However, it now returns a valid
handle even if the device does not exist. In this example, there
are only TWO RS-232C ports on this machine! An attempt to open
/dev/cua3 should return with -1 and the error set to something appropriate.
Interesting that it returns -1 with /dev/cua4, however. I checked to
see if there was, perhaps, a "motherboard UART" that I didn't know about.
UARTs exist at 0x2f8 and 0x3f8 only on this machine.
*/
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <sys/fcntl.h>
main()
{
int fd;
fd = open("/dev/cua3", O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK, 0);
fprintf(stdout, "Open() returned %d, (%s)\n", fd, strerror(errno));
return 0;
}
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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Richard B. Johnson
Project Engineer
Analogic Corporation
Voice : (508) 977-3000 ext. 3754
Fax : (508) 532-6097
Modem : (508) 977-6870
Ftp : ftp@boneserver.analogic.com
Email : rjohnson@analogic.com, johnson@analogic.com
Penguin : Linux version 2.1.15 on an i586 machine.
Warning : It's hard to remain at the trailing edge of technology.
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