On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 06:59:13AM +0100, Ed Schouten wrote:
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> ...
> > .if ${OSVERSION} < 600000
> > GPSMAN_DEFAULT_PORT?=3D   /dev/cuaa0
> > .elif ${OSVERSION} < 800045
> > GPSMAN_DEFAULT_PORT?=3D   /dev/cuad0
> > .else
> > GPSMAN_DEFAULT_PORT?=3D   /dev/cuau0
> > .endif
>=20
> Yes. That seems to be okay. I think you could already remove the cuaa0
> entry, because I'm not sure if we support RELENG_5 anyway?

Not sure; it doesn't hurt to leave it in for now, so I'm not fussed
about it.  :-}

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> ...
> > I suppose I could try using ktrace(1) to get a better idea what's going
> > on.  Any other (better?) ideas?
>=20
> I think the best thing to try is to see what the error code is the
> open() call on the TTY returned. EPERM is possible, but it's more likely
> you got an ENXIO or EBUSY. You could add printf's to sys/kern/tty.c's
> ttydev_open() to see where it falls through.

It was EBUSY.  And seeing that reminded me that when I run CURRENT on my
laptop, I have it configured to use the serial port (singular) as a
console.  And I have getty(8) listening on it so I can login to the
laptop even for those times when the keyboard becomes unresponsive....

Running "conscontrol delete cuau0" addressed the first issue; whacking
/etc/ttys & sending init(8) a SIGHUP addressed the second.

Those done, GPSMan  was able to use the serial port as intended.

Sorry for the noise/false alarm/foot-shooting.  :-}

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> Another life saving tool is pstat(8). It gives you a list of TTY's on
> the system. The `STATE' column should reveal some of the flags that are
> currently set in the TTY, which is useful when looking through
> ttydev_open(). You could also run `show all ttys' in DDB and use `show
> tty <addr>' to dump all state of the TTY in question.

Ah; thanks.

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> Please let me know if you discover any new issues/run into any problems.
> Thanks!

All clear!  :-)

(And it appears that Tcl isn't at fault, either.  :-})

Peace,
david
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