Re: [TiLP-devel] grey link cable trouble

[Tijl C. <ti...@ul...>]

On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 20:46:24 +0200, Romain Lievin wrote:

> > I got it working again, but I don't have a nice solution yet. What I
> > did is setting VMIN=1 en VTIME=0 in tig_open() in libticables, so it
> > waits indefinitely for a byte to read. VMIN=0 and VTIME=15 (normal
> > values) doesn't work and gives a timeout error almost immediately as
> > in, it doesn't wait 1,5 seconds. The strange thing is that the
> > gtk1version still works flawlessly without any of these
> > modifications. What's going on here? Are Linux versions affected
> > too?
> 
> Could you see whether the timeout value is passed fine to the lib. It 
> may explain your problem...

No problem there. Hardcoding the timeout value into the lib gives the
same problem, even if I set it to 50, "read" returns immediately with no
bytes read and thus giving a time out error. Does that mean it reads an
EOF?

> BTW, are you 'root' ?

yes.