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Re: [gpsd-dev] buzzkill is gone, please re-test
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Harlan Stenn |
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Re: [gpsd-dev] buzzkill is gone, please re-test |
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Fri, 30 Jan 2015 08:08:29 +0000 |
"Gary E. Miller" writes:
> On Thu, 29 Jan 2015 19:25:39 -0500
> Greg Troxel <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> "Gary E. Miller" writes:
>>>> Everyone should be using PPS anyway...
>
>> Someone has to rewrite the gpsd PPS code to not depend on the
>> non-standard TIOCMIWAIT and just use RFC2783 calls. I left some
>> comments explaining this, but haven't done it yet.
>
> I have a general plan, but no point coding without a debug platform.
If/when I have time to solve the "remote access" problem to get folks
access to my dev box in Oregon that will get you access to it, too.
> Can't use just RFC2783 calls. Some way to poll the RFC2783 needs to
> be used to replace the simple wait fot input that TIOCMIWAIT provides.
>
> RFC2783 tells you what happened, but will not wake you up to tell you
> something happened.
>
> Also, most linux kernels do not have RFC2783 enabled so TIOCMIWAIT
> must still be supported when available.
I'm not saying the following is a good idea.
Would libevent be a possible choice here?
I used it instead of a select() loop for sntp, as a proof-of-concept to
make sure it would be OK for use as the main-line IO handler for NTP.
And not that y'all care, but libevent supports Windows, too.
H
- Re: [gpsd-dev] buzzkill is gone, please re-test, (continued)
- Re: [gpsd-dev] buzzkill is gone, please re-test, Gary E. Miller, 2015/01/29
- Re: [gpsd-dev] buzzkill is gone, please re-test, Eric S. Raymond, 2015/01/29
- Re: [gpsd-dev] buzzkill is gone, please re-test, Gary E. Miller, 2015/01/29
- Re: [gpsd-dev] buzzkill is gone, please re-test, Gary E. Miller, 2015/01/29
- Re: [gpsd-dev] buzzkill is gone, please re-test, Eric S. Raymond, 2015/01/29
- Re: [gpsd-dev] buzzkill is gone, please re-test, Gary E. Miller, 2015/01/29
- Re: [gpsd-dev] buzzkill is gone, please re-test, Harlan Stenn, 2015/01/29
- Re: [gpsd-dev] buzzkill is gone, please re-test, Gary E. Miller, 2015/01/29
- Re: [gpsd-dev] buzzkill is gone, please re-test, Greg Troxel, 2015/01/29
- Re: [gpsd-dev] buzzkill is gone, please re-test, Gary E. Miller, 2015/01/29
- Re: [gpsd-dev] buzzkill is gone, please re-test,
Harlan Stenn <=
- Re: [gpsd-dev] buzzkill is gone, please re-test, Greg Troxel, 2015/01/30
- Re: [gpsd-dev] buzzkill is gone, please re-test, Greg Troxel, 2015/01/30
- Re: [gpsd-dev] buzzkill is gone, please re-test, Greg Troxel, 2015/01/30