Hello,
The code I'm working with currently does a read() on a device that has
been opened with an open() call (a UART if that matters). It nicely
blocks waiting for a character (potentially forever).
I now need that read to be interrupted... I looked for pselect() so it
can block until I tell it to stop (via signal from another thread), but
that doesn't seem to be supported. I looked at the classic work-around
using a pipe in a select call, but pipe() isn't supported and select
apparently only works on sockets (and the comments in the select header
make it sound like even that is a bad idea).
I can probably make things work with timeouts--basically making it into
a polling loop, but I can't see a way to make the read timeout. I dug
down into the rtems read functions, but didn't see any way to make them
timeout, nor did I see a way to cleanly interrupt them.
If anyone has any suggestions/ideas/pointers, I'd appreciate them.
Thanks.
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