Re: [avrdude-dev] USB-to-serial-converter on OS X

[E. Weddington]

Jan-Hinnerk Reichert wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> a friend of mine had problems using avrdude with a 
> USB-to-serial-converter on his Mac.
>
> We were able to track the problems to the open() call in 
> "ser_posix.c"! It simply doesn't return. Uncommenting the "O_NOBLOCK" 
> there solves his problems.
>
> Has anyone else seen this (or a similar) problem?
>  
No.

> Is it safe to use "O_NONBLOCK" (on all systems)?
>
>  
I'm not even sure what O_NONBLOCK means....
But I would guess that's it's probably ok for Cygwin/Windows.

Eric