John M McIntosh <johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com> writes:

> Only one platform specific primitive or method exists
> serialPortFindNamesPlusKeysstorage which on os-x invokes the
> IOServiceGetMatchingServices() call to get path names to devices
> that support the serial protocols. This primitive call a common
> Linux box could be replaced by smalltalk code to iterate over /dev or
> read some sort of control file etc to figure out  the path names to
> the serial devices. 

For the moment, for testing, I used a /dev/pts/1 or /dev/tty1
hardcoded.

>      self var: #atermios declareC: 'struct termios *atermios'.
> did not turn the atermios into the proper C declare, not sure why.
> However it turn it into a 'char *'
> But if this results in just a compiler warning it still should be ok,
> since the  structure is  pasted in from the smalltalk side.

agree, but the problem of "char *" ? don't we have to tackle this
problem ? Or is it known to the vm/plugins coders ?


> Lastly the primitive call should return an error code (actually
> errno), what is the value?
> Inserting some printf might tell you if the failure occurs when the
> input data is checked.

Ok done, but it seems that my first guess was wrong, the tcgetattr is
not involved into the problem...
This part fails
 if (!((sizeOftermios()) == (interpreterProxy->sizeOfSTArrayFromCPrimitive(atermios)))) {
                interpreterProxy->primitiveFail();
                return null;
        }

and the value of sizeOftermios is 40 whereas the other gives
60... what means sizeOfSTArrayFromCPrimitive(atermios) ? Is it maybe
related to the problem of char* ?

Samir