Re: select(2), usbserial, tty's and disconnect

[Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>]

Joerg Pommnitz wrote:
> Hello all,
> currently it seems that select keeps blocking when the USB device behind
> ttyUSBx gets unplugged. My understanding is, that select should return
> when the next call to one of the operations (read/write) will not block.
> This is certainly true for failing with ENODEV. So, is this an issue
> that will be fixed or should I poll (not the syscall) the device? Or is 
> there another way to monitor for a vanishing tty (it should not be USB 
> specific).

If you just do a blocking read() on the USB serial port, what happens 
when you pull the device? At one point (2.4.20 is the last I checked) 
nothing happened when you did this, the process would just sit there 
forever. There was discussion at one point about doing a tty_hangup() 
when the USB device was disconnected (this causes the read() to return 
with 0 bytes and future open attempts to fail), and a patch was put out 
to do this. I thought this had been merged, but I could be wrong.

I should think that if that works, then your select should be working as 
well..

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