[Nut-upsuser] RE: Nut-upsuser Digest, Vol 11, Issue 3

[Arnaud Quette]

Hi Nevil,

many thanks for your feedback.

2006/5/8, Nevil Thatcher <NevilTh at nat.com.au>:
> ...
> 3). I found another problem with libusb on netBSD in that the
>
> Function usb_interrupt_read() calls read() which blocks on read from usb
> until buffer is full. In my case this was seemingly infinite. A timeout is
> passed to the function but netBSD does not seem to respect this.
>
> I have been meaning to lodge a bug-report but haven't as yet.
>
> To fix (hack) I changed bsd.c in libusb as follows:
>
> Change
> Fd = ensure_ep_open(dev, ep, 0, O_RDONLY)
>
> To
>
> Fd = ensure_ep_open(dev, ep, 0, O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK)
>
> This just tells the read to return immediately if no data from usb rather
> than block. OS buffers device anyway.

have you also forwarded this to the libusb maintainers?

Arnaud
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