High level hardware access

Jerzy Karczmarczuk karczma@info.unicaen.fr
Wed, 24 May 2000 19:10:10 +0100


John van Groningen:


> The file open functions of Clean try to determine the length of the 
> file by seeking to the end of the file and back again. This obviously
> fails for some special files like /dev/ttyS0. I don't think there 
> is a workaround for the current implementation.

Hm. Does it mean that one cannot use pipes?

Jerzy Karczmarczuk
Caen, France