Re: [gpsd-dev] buzzkill is gone, please re-test

[Greg Troxel]

"Gary E. Miller" <address@hidden> writes:

>> Someone has to rewrite the gpsd PPS code to not depend on the
>> non-standard TIOCMIWAIT and just use RFC2783 calls.   I left some
>> comments explaining this, but haven't done it yet.
>
> I have a general plan, but no point coding without a debug platform.
>
> Can't use just RFC2783 calls.  Some way to poll the RFC2783 needs to
> be used to replace the simple wait fot input that TIOCMIWAIT provides.

Sure, and I think basically you just have to usleep.  I left out the
"and of course POSIX".

> RFC2783 tells you what happened, but will not wake you up to tell you
> something happened.

Optionally it can, but none of the implementations do.

> Also, most linux kernels do not have RFC2783 enabled so TIOCMIWAIT
> must still be supported when available.

Sorry, I left out the "and support all the variations of faciltities
which might be available" in answering too quickly.

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