2013/3/4 Jacques Pelletier <jpellet...@ieee.org>: > Le 2013-03-04 01:49, Theo de Raadt a écrit : > >>> For use in the GUI of an application, I need to have a list of detected >>> serial and parallel ports. This list is used to fill a combo box where >>> the user select the port to use (example: in Windows, it would be a list >>> with COM1,COM2, etc. >>> >>> On OpenBSD, how can we retrieve the detected serial and parallel ports? >> There is no clean machine-independent way. >> >> You could perhaps do something like use the output of pstat -t, but >> remove the console and pseudo-ttys, and you would probably be OK. >> >> The console devices will be somewhat machine dependent, but the >> pseudo-ttys >> are easy to spot. >> >> > Is it possible to do this in C?
Since pstat is written in C, the answer most obviously would be "yes" > Also, what are the name of the serial devices? Differs on different platforms and type of devices. USB-serials wont be named as onboard serial ports and so on. -- May the most significant bit of your life be positive.
