problem in viewing data on serial port
 

Hi,

I wrote a simple code in C that intends to write data on the serial port (/dev/ttyGS0) and verify if that data is being written (using windows - COM4). The code intends to write the word "DATA " on the serial port once every second, but on the console terminal on windows (command prompt) I see the word data being printed 7x every seven seconds. Below is the code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <termios.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
int fd;
struct termios options;

fd = open ("/dev/ttyGS0", O_RDWR | O_NOCTTY | O_NDELAY);

memset(&options, 0x00, sizeof(options));

options.c_cflag = (B115200 | CS8 | CLOCAL | CREAD);

options.c_lflag = 0;
options.c_iflag = 0;
options.c_oflag = 0;

options.c_cc[VTIME] = 0;
options.c_cc[VMIN] = 1;

tcsetattr(fd, TCSANOW, &options);



for (; ;)
{
tcflush(fd, TCIOFLUSH);
sleep(1);
write (fd, "data ", 5);

}
close(fd);
return 0;
}


Do you have any ideas why this happens? thanks.

-uchiha

Well, you didn't test the return value of your call to open(), so it is hard to know for sure. I'd guess that your file descriptor, fd, is pointing at either the stdout or stderr stream.
--- rod.