Re: [Bluez-users] minicom over /dev/rfcomm0

["Mark S. Townsley" <mstownsley@gmail.com>]

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Hi Bas:  thanks for your reply.

So are you implying that if I do not go through RFCOMM and all the sockets
stuff, I can
actually open /dev/rfcomm0 and get back a file descriptor just like any
other serial port?

Thanks

Mark


On 12/19/06, Bas Schulte <basschulte@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 19-dec-2006, at 20:23, Mark S. Townsley wrote:
>
> > In many examples that I found online where people are trying to
> > make their cellphone surf web or somehow talk to their cellphone
> > from Bluez, I notice that they can often do minicom over /dev/
> > rfcomm0 in the setup.
> >
> > If I want to access the serial port service like that, but from my
> > C program, do I just treat /dev/rfcomm0 as a serial device and use
> > standard Unix serial programming libraries from my C program to do so?
> > Just curious.  Thanks in advanced for any tip.
>
> You sure can.
>
> You can of course use the code provided by Manuel too but then your
> code won't work without rfcomm/bluetooth. The nice thing is that if
> you keep it generic you can test your application using any old
> serial connection. Or use a pipe in the filesystem etc..
>
> Caveat: I can't get mgetty to work by feeding it /dev/rfcommX though :
> ( It should work, must be one of those things ;)
>
>
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