Re: [iPAQ] [Serial programming]read(fd,buf, 0) doesn't return zero ...

On Wed, Mar 24 '04 at 14:10, Valentin Longchamp wrote:
> I'm trying to communicate from the ipaq on the serial port. I can
> write on it and see it on the console, but I can't read from the
> serial port, and even when I call read(fd, answ, 0) which should
> return zero according to the read man page, the read call is blocking
> and nevers stops ???
>
> Can someone help me ???
>
> Here is my code :
>
> [ ... ]
> newtio.c_cflag = BAUDRATE | CRTSCTS | CS8 | CLOCAL | CREAD;
> [ ... ]
While I've no clue about serial programming, I just wanted to let you
know that the iPaq does noet support RTSCTS (aka hardware handshake).

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