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Article #10593Re: Caps (from caps.shar) and SunOS4.0
From: Rob McMahon
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 1989 07:55
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 1989 07:55
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ESC1298@ESOC.BITNET (Danielle Heinzer) writes:
>I have tried to run "caps" under both SunOS 3.2 and SunOS 4.0. It works
>ok for OS 3.2 but not for OS 4.0.
Caps fails to initialiase a structure properly, I don't know why it worked
on 3.2, must have been a quirk of the compiler. Here are the patches to
make it work. I've also put in some perror's to find out why it was
failing.
Rob
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RCS file: caps.c,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -c -r1.1 caps.c
*** /tmp/,RCSt1a07809 Sat Jan 21 18:29:29 1989
--- caps.c Wed Jan 18 09:13:17 1989
***************
*** 25,38 ****
--- 25,41 ----
int e;
struct kiockey key;
+ key.kio_tablemask = 0;
key.kio_station = 0x77; /* CAPS key position */
if ((kb = open("/dev/kbd", 2)) < 0)
{
+ perror("/dev/kbd");
fprintf(stderr, "%s: Cannot open kbd\n", *argv);
exit(2);
}
if (ioctl(kb, KIOCTYPE, &t) < 0)
{
+ perror("ioctl KIOCTYPE");
fprintf(stderr, "%s: KIOCTYPE ioctl failed on kbd\n", *argv);
exit(2);
}
***************
*** 46,51 ****
--- 49,55 ----
/* return current status of CAPS */
if (ioctl(kb, KIOCGETKEY, &key) < 0)
{
+ perror("ioctl KIOCGETKEY");
fprintf(stderr, "%s: KIOCGETKEY failed\n", *argv);
exit(2);
}
***************
*** 75,80 ****
--- 79,85 ----
key.kio_tablemask = masks[x];
if (ioctl(kb, KIOCSETKEY, &key) < 0)
{
+ perror("ioctl KIOCSETKEY");
fprintf(stderr, "%s: KIOCSETKEY failed\n", *argv);
exit(2);
}
***************
*** 83,88 ****
--- 88,94 ----
key.kio_entry = NOP;
if (ioctl(kb, KIOCSETKEY, &key) < 0)
{
+ perror("ioctl KIOCSETKEY");
fprintf(stderr, "%s: KIOCSETKEY failed\n", *argv);
exit(2);
}
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: cudcv%warwick.ac.uk@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk (Rob McMahon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: Caps (from caps.shar) and SunOS4.0 Message-ID: <94@titania.warwick.ac.uk> Date: 28 Jan 89 07:55:40 GMT References: <8901091432.AA02687@rice.edu> Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Computing Services, Warwick University, UK Lines: 71 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: 21 Jan 89 18:33:29 GMT X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 126, message 9 of 12