Resetting a serial port

[Matthias Apitz]

El día Wednesday, March 20, 2019 a las 08:04:55PM +0100, Andrea Venturoli escribió:

> On 3/19/19 7:39 PM, Polytropon wrote:
> 
> >	# /usr/bin/true > /dev/lpt0
> >
> >Maybe the corresponding serial device can be reset
> >in the same way?
> 
> In case it locks again (it did two times the last month, but it hadn't
> happened for years), I'll try.
> Thanks.

Note: In the command shown above the '/usr/bin/true' does nothing with
the TTY. It is the shell opening the device for writing. I in your case
would write some C-pgm to uses the syscalls open(2) and ioctl(2) to get
information about the device status.

	matthias
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