Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 22:41:29 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: f.wagner@gmx.net Subject: Re: serial programming HOWTO Message-ID: <20001112224129.A1112@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com, f.wagner@gmx.net References: <000901c04ce6$85ea7ca0$0201a8c0@mark> <20001112153546.A31042@redhat.com> <00c601c04cf9$1e77a8a0$0201a8c0@mark> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <00c601c04cf9$1e77a8a0$0201a8c0@mark>; from f.wagner@gmx.net on Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 11:37:19PM +0100 On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 11:37:19PM +0100, Frank Wagner wrote: >Hello and thanks for the reply, > >> >From the linux man page: >> >> "The sa_restorer element is obsolete and should not be >> used." >> >> It's also not mentioned in the Single UNIX Specification. > >Means this that I can comment out that line with the sa_restorer >statement? I assume so, yes. >>>After that I tried to compile that example under Linux and got the >>>follwing error message >>> >>>program.c: 39 incompatible types in assignment --dir=. >>> >>>that refers to the folloing line of the source: >>> >>>saio.sa_mask = 0; >>> >>>Why do I get a error message form an example that is written for linux? >> >>Because cygwin is not linux? The above use of saio.sa_mask is >>incorrect. You should be using sigemptyset() to clear the mask. This >>will also work on linux. > >But the serial programming HOWTO is witten for linux. Did the author >make a mistake in this case? The author apparently used a nonportable construct. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com