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From: Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>
Subject: Re: interrupt programming
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 10:08:08 +0200
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On Mon, 2004-07-26 09:24:42 +0200, Sayang Oin <sayangoin@hotmail.com>
wrote in message <BAY15-F21ZXn97cvZvK00022be7@hotmail.com>:
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> I have to use timer because I have to communicate with other programm via=
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> filestream
> and I use this timer also for scheduling the time that I have to send dat=
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> to my device.

That's quite DOSsish thinking. You've got several variants you can
choose from:

	1. Use non-blocking I/O with select() and toggle between your
	   two (or several) tasks.
	2. Separate all workplaces into one thread each.
	2b. Mix both variants.

> people said if I use interrupt so I can be sure I will not lose my datas.

You can't be *sure* to not loose data. Even with using interrupts, there
are possible conditions in which you'd loose some bytes of data due to
overflows. Think eg. about long-running IDE interrupts. While they're
running, no other IRQs will be serviced (unless you've got several
CPUs--it may be different in that case). That is, if eg. a 16byte FIFO
of a serial UART fills up, it'll overrun. At 115200 Baud, you need
little less than 1.5ms -- IDE interrupts can go up over 500ms easily, at
least with no DMA:)

> here is my routine
> ....
>=20
>  while(1)
>  {
> 		res=3Dselect(fd+1, &rfds, NULL, NULL, &tv);

Hopefully you re-initialize tv before each call to select:)

>  return rd;
> }


But that's all not your problem. Your UART (or it's driver) thinks it's
not allowed to send out data. There's the problem.

MfG, JBG

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