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Article #1845Re: Problems with serial device in shared mode
From: Aries Project
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1989 17:01
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1989 17:01
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From article <8910240641.AA22293@postgres.Berkeley.EDU>, by dillon@POSTGRES.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon): > > I do this all the time (have one program hold the serial device > open whilst I execute another). Are you sure you are using the > 1.3 serial.device ??? > > There is a problem... many terminal programs and other programs > do not open the serial.device SERF_SHARED !! THIS IS WRONG! You > programmers out there, ALWAYS OPEN SERIAL.DEVICE SERF_SHARED !! > > The other problem is that the serial.device will refuse to > do a SDCMD_SETPARAMS call while active requests are pending, so > if you do use something similar to what I've described above you > have to be sure that the first program doesn't have any active > requests when it executes the second program. > > -Matt
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rice!uw-beaver!ubc-cs!alberta!dvinci!news From: aries@dvinci.UUCP (Aries Project) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Problems with serial device in shared mode Message-ID: <1989Oct25.170153.15902@dvinci.usask.ca> Date: 25 Oct 89 17:01:53 GMT References: <8910240641.AA22293@postgres.Berkeley.EDU> Sender: news@dvinci.usask.ca Organization: University of Saskatchewan Lines: 17