Serial programming on FreeBSD 6.0 RELEASE

Giorgos Keramidas keramida at ceid.upatras.gr
Thu Jun 22 20:06:14 UTC 2006


On 2006-06-22 13:55, Andrew Falanga <af300wsm at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/22/06, Derek Ragona <derek at computinginnovations.com> wrote:
> >
> > Kermit may be manipulating the uart directly.
> >
> >Unless you are not getting the uart to flush the characters.  I have only
> >had that problem with doing low-level direct programing.  Typically not a
> >problem with high-level coding where you just open the device and set it
> >for
> >non-buffered output.
> >
> >Your problem though may be in the stack overflows.  You may need to
> >explicitly compile and link it with a larger stack.  It may be these
> >overflows causing the output to never get there.
>
> I'm not sure I understand what you mean.
> Andy

AFAIK, 'silo overflow' messages are *NOT* about stack overflows.

Andy,

can you please post a complete, compilable but minimal program that
exhibits the behavior you find strange?

- Giorgos



More information about the freebsd-questions mailing list