[LinuxPPS] A question about the PPS device.

[Rodolfo Giometti]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 12:27:09PM -0600, clemens at dwf.com wrote:
> Just a question.
> I have installed the ' *ifdef N_PPS ' code that has been mentioned
> in a number of emails recently in the ONCORE driver, and have
> it working.  

Great! :)

> Given a day or two to think about things Ill add it to the code in the
> NTP repository.

Ok.

> But I dont understand this at all.
> 
> Using ttyctrl, the current code in the ONCORE driver worked just fine,
> in particular, the PPS device was opened O_RDWR.
> When I installed the #ifdef N_PPS code, it failed, I looked at ttyctrl.c and
> saw that Rudolfo opened the device O_RDONLY, and changed the ONCORE
> open to O_RDONLY, and now it works.

I don't understand what you mean. Looking at ttyctrl.c I don't see any
O_RDONLY... O_o

Ciao,

Rodolfo

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