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Old 10-12-2008   #1 (permalink)
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RS232 programming problem

Hi all

I encountered a strange phenomenon when reading / writing to RS232 serial device (on my Linux machine /dev/ttyS0)

I have simple 2 processes:

1) process which WRITE characters to serial device /dev/ttyS0
For example write the characters "aa102222233333444445555566666777778888899999aaaaa bbbbbcccccddddd"

2) process which READ characters from serial device /dev/ttyS0 ( the process is blocked when nothing to be read)

I short the TX and the RX pins in my RS232 PC port (the 9 pins serial connector) so I 'll be able to read what I write.

The problem is:

when WRITE process write something like "aa102222233333444445555566666777778888899999aaaaa bbbbbcccccddddd"

The READ process reads some time read ONLY part of the above characters like: "8888899999aaaaabbbbbcccccdddddaa102222233333"


In my test I run WRITE process few times and check what READ process get

I want to emphasize that this problem happens some time (most case when I run process READ first time, but some time after few time that I write to the serial device)



Can you please help me to understand what is wrong?


code:


Process write:
----------------

#include <stdio.h> /* Standard input/output definitions */
#include <string.h> /* String function definitions */
#include <unistd.h> /* UNIX standard function definitions */
#include <fcntl.h> /* File control definitions */
#include <errno.h> /* Error number definitions */
#include <termios.h> /* POSIX terminal control definitions */

int main()
{
int fd; /* File descriptor for the port */

// num of read characters
int n = 0;

const char* serial_device = "/dev/ttyS0";

fd = open( serial_device , O_WRONLY | O_NOCTTY | O_NDELAY);


if (fd == -1)
{
/*
* Could not open the port.
*/
printf("open_port: Unable to open %s \n" , serial_device);
}



const char* sentance = "aa102222233333444445555566666777778888899999aaaaa bbbbbcccccddddd";

printf("About to write %s \n to UART on %s \n" , sentance , serial_device);

n = write(fd, sentance , strlen(sentance));

if (n < 0)
{
fputs("write() byte failed!\n", stderr);
}
else
{

printf("writting %d bytes to UART on %s \n" , n , serial_device);
}


close(fd);
return 0;
}




Process read:
---------------

#include <stdio.h> /* Standard input/output definitions */
#include <string.h> /* String function definitions */
#include <unistd.h> /* UNIX standard function definitions */
#include <fcntl.h> /* File control definitions */
#include <errno.h> /* Error number definitions */
#include <termios.h> /* POSIX terminal control definitions */
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include "signal.h"
#include <assert.h>

#define N 1000

int main()
{
int fd; /* File descriptor for the port */


char array[N] = {'\n'};

// num of read characters
int n = 0;


const char* serial_device = "/dev/ttyS0";



fd = open(serial_device, O_RDONLY | O_NOCTTY );

if (fd == -1)
{
/*
* Could not open the port.
*/
printf("open_port: Unable to open %s \n" , serial_device);

}
else
{
fcntl(fd, F_SETFL, 0);
}


printf("Reading process form UART on %s \n" , serial_device);


while (1)
{
printf("Begin to read\n");
fflush(stdout);


n = read(fd, array , 500 );

if (n >= 0)
{
array[n]='\n';
}

if (n < 0)
{
fputs("read() failed!\n", stderr);
}
else
{

printf("The content of the Serial port is: %s len is %d \n" , array , n);
fflush(stdout);

n = 0;


}

}


close(fd);
return 0;
}


Best regards,
Dudi
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