On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Chirag Kantharia wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 05:18:32PM +0100, Erik Mouw wrote:
> | > Morever, I don't have a filesystem in the kernel, and so I guess, this
> | > won't work. Is there any other way?
> | Sure, do it in userland. Opening and using a serial port smells like
> | policy, and policy should always be done in userland.
>
> Thanx for the reply. But, is there a way to invoke userland process
> without a filesystem?
>
Most OS's provide a filesystem interface to serial port. For eg.: LPT0/1
in dos. I found /dev/lp0 /dev/lp1 /dev/lp2 in my devices directory. They
might be a possible interface you need. Can someone confirm on this.
-Pradeep
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