Fixed badly set bitrate causing sweep object creation to hang on Linux #117
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libsweep/src/unix/serial.cc
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This conditional branch is redundant given the if (bitrate != 115200) above, which results in an error. Maybe just
// if defined, translate human readable bitrate to termios bitrate
#ifdef B115200
return B115200
#endif
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Well ok, I was supposing that more bitrates would be supported in the future.
libsweep/src/unix/serial.cc
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| // translate human readable bitrate to termios bitrate | ||
| if (bitrate == 115200) | ||
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| #ifdef B115200 |
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Could you clang format as well. Format file included in the main repo. If not, let me know and I'll clean it up before merging.
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I'm not use to it but I can figure out how it works
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Thanks for this second PR. Even if a more robust and elegant portability fix can't be resolved just yet, the library is currently broken.... so I'd like to get this merged ASAP!! |
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Done |
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I'll do one more final check on mac and get this merged! Thanks so much. |
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Urgh thanks for the deep dive here and fixing the bug. I think we hit this last week when playing with Haskell bindings in #115 but didn't look further (since struggling with Haskell was already enough for the evening 😅). |
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| } else if (ret == 0) { |
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I think this should check for feof (?)
| // translate human readable bitrate to termios bitrate | ||
| #ifdef B115200 | ||
| return B115200; | ||
| #endif |
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This is a good quick-fix but we should refactor the function (or how we allow for bitrates here).
We take a bitrate argument but in case we hit the branch here the argument is never used.
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The first fix I made was actually including a condition testing the bitrate before setting a constant, but this one was not merged. |
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This bug was causing sweep object creation to hang when trying to read the returned value from serial port. ==> Issue #72
Bitrate of the serial communication was badly set during the creation of the sweep object when using the libsweep library on Linux.
cfsetispeed(...) and cfsetospeed(...) both take a termios bitrate constant and not the bitrate directly. So should the get_baud(115200) call return the B115200 value defined in termios.h.
The fix seems to have a limitation when compiling on some MAC OS X computers. Termios constants like B115200 doesn't seem to be always defined. That's why the code uses a #ifdef as a workaround for MAC.
Thanks.