Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!svin02!debra
From: debra@svin02.info.win.tue.nl (Paul de Bra)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Serial I/O
Summary: look at kermit
Message-ID: <1629@svin02.info.win.tue.nl>
Date: 10 Dec 90 15:24:12 GMT
References: <1990Nov26.092137.5629@oilean.uucp>
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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In article <1990Nov26.092137.5629@oilean.uucp> joe@oilean.uucp (Joe McGuckin) writes:
>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...

Look at the source for kermit (public domain).
As far as i know it does everything with only one process.

Paul.
debra@research.att.com, debra@win.tue.nl