[lug] A Big Red Switch...

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 08:00:20PM -0600, socket at peakpeak.com wrote:
>documentation for people familiar with C and the *concepts* of
>hardware I/O handling, so I could learn about creating a Linux
>handler (module, daemon, whatever) for a Big Red Switch?

Connect both BRSs to DTR and DCD.  Then you want a program which does
something like:

	#include <termios.h>
	#include <stdlib.h>
	#include <sys/types.h>
	#include <sys/stat.h>
	#include <fcntl.h>


	int fd = open("/dev/ttyS0", O_RDONLY), ret;
	int state;		//  0 if line is down, 1 if up


	state = 0;
	while (1) {
		ioctl(fd, TIOCMGET, &ret);
		if ((ret & TIOCM_CAR) && !state) {
			system("pon");
			state = 0;
			}
		if (!(ret & TIOCM_CAR) && state) {
			system("poff");
			state = 1;
			}
		sleep(1);
		}

Sean
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