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Subject: Re: background read

From: Uwe Bonnes <bon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: libftdi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 10:45:40 +0200
>>>>> "Anton" == Anton A Litvinov <mirteney@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

    Anton> Hello I am writing a program that should a) continuously read
    Anton> data from FTDI-port in the background and store it into file.  b)
    Anton> receive some commands from stdin and do appropriate writes into
    Anton> FTDI-port

    Anton> Questions 1.  can a) and b) run in different threads or I should
    Anton> place read and write into a cycle in one thread and read(stdin)
    Anton> -- in another ?  and establish link beetween one to another by
    Anton> means of queue (fifo) ?

    Anton> 2.  or maybe I should use some kind of non-blocking read ?

It all depends on data rate and reliability requirements. You can have a
look at ftdi_stream.c in libftdi-1.0 and the discussion around it. It should
give you a goos start.

Bye
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