Problems with tiocget/seta

[Harti Brandt]

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 gerarra at tin.it wrote:

>
>>
>>
>> Some background...
>>
>> For the past three years I have been developing a Forth compiler for Linux.
>> The kernel to my compiler is written in 100% pure assembler using NASM.
>> The object code produced is almost identical to what the Forth compiler
>> itself would produce were it were used to compile its own sources (some
> day).
>> I accomplish this via liberal use of NASM macros.
>>
>> All I/O etc is accomplished using Linux syscalls, no external libraries
> are
>> referenced.  Linux is my BIOS :)
>>
>> The problem...
>>
>> I consider Isforth to be a worthy project, worthy enough to be ported to
>> other processors and other operating systems.  The PPC port is being done
>> by a friend of mine and is almost complete.  The FreeBSD port has been
> "nearly
>> complete" for about EIGHT months.  I am currenty at a complete loss as
> to
>> how to fix the problem (even though i think i know what it is!) :/
>>
>> One of the things that my compiler has to do is switch stdin out of canoniacal
>> mode and switch off echo.  In Linux the ioctl is working - in fbsd its
> not.
>
> have you get a look to freebsd ioctl request codes? they differ from Linux
> and FreeBSD.
>
>> Im almost posative that i am passing correct values to the syscall yet
> stdin
>> is still buffered after the call and is still echoing.   I would truely
> love
>> to get this up and running in FBSD but am in dire need of help.  Im told
>> that if anyone can help me YOU guys can (blame samy for getting you into
>> this :)...
>
> If you don't find a solution giving a look to tcsetattr(3) implementation
> for FreeBSD could be a good idea.

Especially cfmakeraw().

harti