What am I doing wrong? /proc/tty/driver/serial shows the number of breaks
incrementing (I am using minicom on a second system with a light box so I
am generating breaks which are being detected in the statistics).
But in the program below, breaks is never incrementing, nor is anything
returned by the read (other than a zero) when a break condition happens,
and it detects characters properly. It also detects control-c causing
sigint on the console (which does increment breaks).
BRKINT only sends a signal to the tty's foreground process group. This
means that the (a) the tty has to be your controlling tty and (b) you
have to be in the foreground process group in order to receive the
break.
If you simply need to detect a break, try setting PARMRK and clearing
BRKINT and IGNPAR. Then a break will be received as a \377, \0, \0. (And
if the tty receives sends \377, it will be received by the process as
\377, \377.)
- Ted