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Article #572Re: CLOCAL, or catch-22
From: Brandon Allbery
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1987 01:01
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1987 01:01
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As quoted from <325@nsta.UUCP> by amos@nsta.UUCP (Amos Shapir):
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| One of the optional flags of the c_cflag field of termio is CLOCAL. (see
| <termio.h>) It is supposed to cause the tty driver to ignore the
| 'carrier detect' bit in the RS232 interface, and open the line anyway.
| This is needed for ports that do not have the DC wired; trying to open
| such a port without setting the CLOCAL bit first, will cause the open to
| hang forever waiting for a carrier signal.
|
| However, the only way to set this flag is by a ioctl call; the ioctl
| call needs a file-descriptor argument; a file-descriptor can only be
| obtained by a successfull open call...
+---------------
#include <termio.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
...
struct termio t;
int fd;
if ((fd = open("/dev/tty22", O_RDWR|O_NDELAY)) == -1) {
perror("/dev/tty22");
exit(1);
}
ioctl(fd, TCGETA, &t);
t.c_cflag |= CLOCAL;
ioctl(fd, TCSETAW, &t);
--
Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc and comp.binaries.ibm.pc
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rutgers!sri-spam!mordor!lll-tis!ptsfa!ihnp4!cbosgd!cwruecmp!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5 Subject: Re: CLOCAL, or catch-22 Message-ID: <4127@ncoast.UUCP> Date: Wed, 12-Aug-87 21:01:25 EDT Article-I.D.: ncoast.4127 Posted: Wed Aug 12 21:01:25 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 15-Aug-87 08:25:33 EDT References: <325@nsta.UUCP> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Followup-To: comp.bugs.sys5 Distribution: world Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 38