On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 14:10 +0200, Erik Mouw wrote: > On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 05:09:39PM +0530, Mandeep Sandhu wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 13:07 +0200, Erik Mouw wrote: > > > No, userland doesn't expect it, and it will confuse your terminal. > > > printf() used in userland programs also doesn't print a \0 after every > > > line, and with reason: \0 is *only* the string terminator used > > > internally in C, *not* a way to signal end-of-file to userland. > > > > > ok folks! i tried strlen too......but to no avail! :( > > still only putting `\n' does the trick! what say Erik? > > Without \n, your shell probably overwrites whatever is printed by cat > with the shell prompt. However, strace shows that cat indeed prints the > string, so nothing is wrong with either your device or the cat program. > Try 'cat /dev/mydevice | more' to see it is printed indeed. > yup! more does show "hello" getting printed! thanks all. -mandeep > > Erik > -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
