Thread: How To Add A Delay To A Buffer

Hey all,

I have a question about adding a delay into a buffer that I use to communicate between to serial ports on a Linux system.

When serial port 1 receives data, it has to sent it to a buffer and this buffer has to sent the data further to the second serial port.

Now I want to add a delay to the buffer output. So when the buffer gets data it has to keep it there for, lets say 500 miliseconds and then sent it to port two.

Can someone give me an explanation about the things I have to do, to create this delay?

Thanks for your support.

Allart

How hard is your requrement? My first choice would be select (check man page). That or a simple "spin lock" where you loop 5000 times then check the availibility of the port. These sorts of things are known as "real time" programming, it's much more art than science but real time and linux are your magic google words.