I'm accessing serial ports in linux from user space using ioctl, read and write.Now i need to get notifications from the kernel if there is new data available or if the port's buffer is empty.How do i get this done without polling? There is something called inotify but i guess that is for 'regular' files (as opposed to device files)
If you're using a regular file descriptor, how about select()
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I looked into select() and poll(). But again these (either blocking or non blocking) are over once the call to these functions is completed. I was thinking more an interrupt based notification so that once it is triggered, i can do my processing in the interrupt service routine. (This is how a normally do when there is no Operating System involved, just bare metal C.But i'm kinda new to OS programming and hence the doubt)
Look into the F_SETOWN subcommand of the fcntl() function. It allows you to request that a certain process receive a SIGIO signal whenever the given file descriptor becomes ready for reading/writing.
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Code://try //{ if (a) do { f( b); } while(1); else do { f(!b); } while(1); //}
