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Re: ioctl() support
- To: "'cygwin at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: Re: ioctl() support
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 11:29:40 -0500
- Cc: kern at sibbald dot com
- References: <01C052D9.82FD67C0.kern@sibbald.com>
- Reply-To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 10:06:11AM +0100, Kern Sibbald wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I'm running CYGWIN 1.1.2 (my Xlib didn't work with 1.1.4; will
>soon try 1.1.5), and am very happy with it. I have built a
>version of apcupsd (UPS daemon) that works great on Win32
>except for "dumb" UPSes which require serial line control
>with ioctl() TIOCMBIS, TIOCMBIC, and TIOCMGET. My ioctl()
>calls always return with "Invalid argument".
>
>In a quick look at the CYGWIN source, it appears that you do
>not support TIOCMBIS, TIOCMBIC, and TIOCMGET.
>Is this true or am I missing something?
Not only are they not supported, I can't find them in any header
files. I would have expected a compilation error rather than a
runtime error.
>If you do not support them, do you have any plans to support
>them?
Sorry, no.
>Assuming that you do not support them, is there any way after
>I do an open() on the serial port that I can get the Windows
>serial port handle so that I can interface directly to the
>port with GetCommModemStatus() and EscapeCommFunction()
>without having to rewrite all the open()/close() code
>that you have already so nicely done?
get_osfhandle (fd);
cgf
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