[PD] call for [comport] testing!

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at at.or.at
Sun Mar 11 15:10:23 CET 2012


On Sat, Mar 10, 2012, at 15:43, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> Le 2012-03-07 à 00:03:00, Hans-Christoph Steiner a écrit :
> 
> > I just committed a fix for the race condition that happens when a serial 
> > port gets disconnected on GNU/Linux and Mac OS X.  Please test heavily 
> > on those platforms, including yanking out the USB plug and going out of 
> > range with a bluetooth.  It should just cleanly close the serial port 
> > now.
> 
> BTW, I have made a version of [comport] in 2008, to introduce an optional 
> ring-buffer FIFO for outgoing data, with user-defined size, because I 
> needed to upload large files by serial port. It might be a good idea to 
> merge this feature into the main [comport] branch, for several reasons. 
> One of them is that I'm not really distributing it anywhere.

Sounds interesting, how would that affect latency?  Most people use
comport for getting data from sensors, so that's important.

.hc



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