Re: Serial programming - Writing bytes in a blocking mode - Problem with tcdrain() ?

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 10:22:00AM +0100, pbenito@cemitec.com wrote:
>I'm trying to use the serial port with Cygwin, and here is my problem:
>
>I can successfully write on the line, but I need to switch the RTS and DTR
>lines just AFTER the last byte is written in the line. I put the bytes that
>I want in the line with the command Write and I wait for the last byte to
>be written with tcdrain() and then I switch the RTS and RTS lines. But when
>I see the signals in the oscilloscope I realized that the tcdrain call is
>not waiting till the output buffer is empty and I switch the RTS and DTR
>lines before I write all the bytes !! I attach my code, is it something
>wrong with it or is there a problem with the tcdrain call in cygwin? On a
>Linux box, tcdrain call seems to work fine...
>
> I'm running Cygwin v1.65 on a Windows XP SP2 machine.
>
>Thanks for your help

Corinna and I looked at the implementation of tcdrain in cygwin.  It's pretty
simple.  It just calls FlushFileBuffers and, according to Microsoft:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/devio/base/read_and_write_operations.asp

it should be doing the right thing.

I wonder if you're just seeing the effects of a buffer on the comm
device itself not draining even though Windows has flushed everything
from its own memory.
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TimeSys, Inc.

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