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From: joe@oilean.uucp (Joe McGuckin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Serial I/O
Message-ID: <1990Nov26.092137.5629@oilean.uucp>
Date: 26 Nov 90 09:21:37 GMT
Organization: Island Software
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I have an application that needs to send/receive stuff from a serial port in
an async. manner. I know that Unix's tip forks a seperate processes for sending
and receiving chars. This seems kludgey to me - plus, I want the main process to
be able to communicate with the sending and receiving code. Can someone suggest
a better way than forking?? 

What about sigvec() - it looks as if one could create user level interrupt routines
that get triggered when characters are available for I/O on a file/device...

-joe

joe@parcplace.com



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