[LinuxPPS] LinuxPPS - odd behaviour. (Please Read)

[Rodolfo Giometti]

On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 03:58:36PM +0100, Udo van den Heuvel wrote:
> Paul wrote:
> > Have you put the cat in the background while you run NTPD?
> > cat /dev/ttyS0&
> 
> The fact that I do get assert/clears doesn't mean the port is opened OK?
> I thought that my simple 'open' would take over what the 'cat' normally
> does.

Using 'cat' or open() is just the same. If you get assert/clear events
means that the serial port is open()ed, since only with the open() the
IRQ line of the serial port is registered into the system.

Ciao,

Rodolfo

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