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

Valentin Longchamp wrote:

> Quoting Toby Gray <toby@yargybot.com>:
>
>
>>On Thursday 25 March 2004 00:10, Valentin Longchamp quoth thusly:
>>
>>>I'm trying to communicate from the ipaq on the serial port.
>>>
>>Are you sure that nothing else is already using the port? By default
>>Familiar runs a getty on the serial port. Some (older) versions of
>>Familiar also default to the serial port for the system console.
>>
>
> Sorry, there is on getty using the port. I think it is the Familiar default one
> because when I kill it, it always restarts with a different PID ... how can I
> configure Familiar to avoid this getty starting ???

There is probably a line in "/etc/inittab" that has "respawn" "getty" in it, so
that init always starts getty when it exits.

Make sure you have alternative ways of getting to the iPaq, or you might find
yourself locked on the outside with the key inside :)

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