serial port programming

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Fri Mar 30 17:20:00 GMT 2001


On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 05:16:42PM -0800, Tim Holmes wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I'm trying to use cygwin to write an app that communicates via the serial
>port.  I'm doing this under Windows NT.  
>
>At one point I need to find out how many bytes are in the incoming
>buffer.  The POSIX programming references I've found say to use FIONREAD,
>but this is apparently not included in Cywin's termios.
>
>I've found some references to this in the list archives, but wasn't clear
>as to what it all meant.  Can I read the number of bytes in the
>buffer?  

I don't believe that it is implemented in Cygwin.

cgf

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