[PLUG] Serial Port Routines

[James C. Lewis]

Normally I'd wade through something like this myself, but time isn't a
premium I can enjoy.

This is for interfacing to a microprocessor... Given the extent of
the project already, I'd rather not spend a large amount of time working
on the PC interface. I'm hoping someone has some serial port routines for
linux that will work in the following method... 

I need to be able to send 1 byte (which I've gotten fairly acceptable
results with myself).  Then I need a signal for when data has been
received.  The "standard" blocking/non-blocking of read won't work (for me
anyway).  If I block read, then the program won't respond to anything
else, and if I do a non-blocking read then I'd have to sit in a while(1)
loop...

I found a code example that sets up system signal, and it almost works
(there are problems with it that I don't know how to fix).   The rest of
the code examples i've found or blocking/non-blocking stuff that I can get
to work, but not how I need it to.

If anyone has some ideas, or code, etc... i'm open to hearing them...


 -James C. Lewis
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