[PD] preventing comport freezes

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On May 8, 2009, at 10:33 AM, danomatika wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 01:42 +0200, pd-list-request at iem.at wrote:
>>
>> So right now, when [comport] is open and that device gets
>> disconnected, comport freezes and Pd crashes.  My guess is that
>> comport is waiting and therefore blocking.  It seems like the  
>> select()
>> call should prevent that, any other guesses on how to prevent comport
>> from locking like this?  Many arduino users would be very happy.
>>
>> .hc
> Here's a short serial class for Linux (and Mac I'm sure) that uses  
> select() ...
>
> I figured that part out by reading http://www.easysw.com/~mike/serial/serial.html
>
> It's a bit messy, I have a better one at work I can send in a day or  
> two.

Mind if we keep this on list?

Have you had a chance to check the performance of that?  Martin added  
select() to his networking code, and things got much slower.

.hc


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