Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!becker!bdb
From: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: xenix system V tty drivers
Message-ID: <2175@becker.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jan 90 23:43:46 GMT
References: <1227@cirrusl.UUCP>
Reply-To: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
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Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario
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In article <1227@cirrusl.UUCP> saeed@sunseeker (Saeed Talebbeik) writes:
|Is there any source ( books, code, etc.) that specifically addresses how to
|write tty device drivers. I have heard that writing the line descipline routine
|are very difficult and time consuming and you are better off using the functions
|already provided in the kernel for that. The Santa Cruz Operations offers a 
|course which is good but first it costs almost 1500 bucks and second it is 
|offered on February 25 which is too late. I will appreciate any help or 
|suggestions .

	A general-purpose reference on device driver programming is

	  "Writing a UNIX Device Driver", Egan & Texeira, Wiley 1988.

	A good overview of TTY device drivers and line disciplines
	can be found in

	  "The Design of the UNIX Operating System", Bach, Prentice-Hall 1986

	Also quite relevant is

	  "The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating System",
	  Leffler McCusick & Karels, Addison-Wesley 1988

Cheers,
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