Hi,
I am developing a program to control two devices
1)through RS232 interface
2)through USB port
I had a doubt can i call a function to pass values to RS232 connected device and keeping the USB device idle in the same program without using threads...
Idle in the sense i am not accessing the USB device while the function for RS232 is called...but both devices are initialized...
So which OS/Compiler are you using?
Do you have a specific problem with keeping the USB "idle"?
For most other things (eg, network sockets), any "keep-alive" protocol is typically handled by the driver.
As a user-land process, it just opens the connection, uses it when it needs to, then closes it again.
If you dance barefoot on the broken glass of undefined behaviour, you've got to expect the occasional cut.
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