Re: [hatari-devel] SCC issues (vs. real MegaSTE) mentioned in Atari-forum

[Eero Tamminen <oak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On 12.9.2024 11.35, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 10/09/2024 16.38, Nicolas Pomarède wrote:
> > I'm looking at this to make both code more similar but I see rs232.c 
> > is using File_Open to open the in/out file associated with the serial 
> > port, and not using open() directly as in scc.c
> >
> > Is there any reason for that ? I see File_Open allows to use stderr 
> > and stdout as a filename but is that really used for rs232 emulation ?
>
> At least on Linux, one could also use open() with /dev/stderr or 
> /dev/stdout for that.

Does that work also for Mac / BSD?


> > If not, I'd rather replace use of "FILE *" handler by file descriptor 
> > number (as returned by open() )
> >
> > Any idea on that ?
>
> I think it's mainly that way since this is based on very old WinSTon 
> code. Back then, I rather replaced the Windows functions with the 
> portable fopen() etc. instead of using the low-level functions instead.

....i.e. is File_Open() there just for supporting this niche feature for 
Windows?


	- Eero