Re: [Boston.pm] I/O to device

2004-12-07 Thread Andrew M. Langmead
On Dec 6, 2004, at 11:12 PM, Ranga Nathan wrote: I need to write to /dev/cpcmd and read back from it. Can someone start me up in the right direction? You probably want to open the file as "+ You probably want to set command buffering on the filehandle, (my $oldfh=select(CPCMD); $|++;select

[Boston.pm] I/O to device

2004-12-07 Thread Ranga Nathan
An interface to z/VM's command processor (CP) is implemented as a device (/dev/cpcmd) I want to use perl to send commands and receive results. I have never done I/O to device, so this is something new. I have a sample c program that does: fd = open(CPDEV, O_RDWR); if (fd >= 0) { rc =