Questions tagged [character-device]
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Is there any difference between #include <linux/ioctl.h> and #include <sys/ioctl.h>?
I have to write a device driver code for temperature sensor using IOCTL, when I was going through a lot of sample codes, I found while surfing the net, I came across this difference in header file, I ...
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What's the difference between structures "cdev" and "inode" in the context of device driver programming?
I am currently studying device drivers in an operating systems course and am getting confused regarding the difference between the "inode" structs and "cdev" structs. Could someone ...
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Problem printing the content of a waiting queue in Linux kernel
Context: Consider the following set of operations {A, B, C, D, E}:
(A) : On the read() function of my device driver, I add the calling thread to a wait queue wq if a driver's buffer buf is empty.
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Linux kernel register_chdev returned value
This video shows an example Raspberry Pi Linux kernel module which creates a new character device. It uses the kernel API register_chdev. In a comment to the video (I can not generate a direct link to ...
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On UNIX OS, for which of the following I/O devices the access is not via a special file of type "character I/O"? [duplicate]
On UNIX OS, for which of the following I/O devices the access is not via a special file of type "character I/O"?
Mouse
Screen
Disk On Key (USB)
Printer
None of the above
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How to open and read a character device as binary file?
I'm working with USB and I want to read the content of usb device descriptor in /dev/bus/usb/00x/00y - it is a character device.
I used fopen to open it as a binary file with "rb" parameter. ...
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Concurrent write access to character device file
I am wondering what happens when two processes write to a character device file at the same time.
Currently, I am mostly worried about /dev/spidev0.0 on a Raspberry pi.
If I assume correctly that it's ...
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MITM / Proxy for Character devices
I have a character devices file, say /dev/X and I would like to capture every interaction which goes in and out of /dev/X.
I'm looking for a way to create some kind of MITM/Proxy to that file.
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May a character device only handle blocking I/O?
Let's consider the following (imaginary) device: a clock which takes 1 second to query, then returns the current time. We want to write a character device driver for it, which supports read operations ...
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How are the TTY and serial_core related?
I need to write a new character device file for the UART, which allows a few more file operations than usually allowed (not just open, write, etc..)
I'm on an embedded mainline linux kernel (v 5.4).
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Are /dev/i2c-1 and /dev/mem colliding?
I write a program which should handle a motion sensor and an ultrasonic sensor at the same time. I'm using a Jetson Nano with 40 GPIO-pins. The first one uses I2C interface and thus accesses /dev/i2c-...
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Is keyboard driver a character device driver?
I am learning device drivers and I got this doubt , is keyboard driver a character device driver in Linux?
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what will the kernel do when an USB mouse inserted in Linux PC?
I am trying to write a kernel module which loads upon detection of USB Mouse.
I am new to this stuff, I googled for this issue but couldn't find any appropriate solution.
can anyone please explain ...
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Kernel throws error while writing to the character device file in 4.9.82-ti-r102 debian 9.3
I created the device file under /dev folder successfully, but writing to that device file makes kernel to throw following error messages.
Message from syslogd@beaglebone at Feb 26 15:40:10 ... kernel:...
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Nvme not showing up in /dev on Ubuntu 19.04 (5.0.0-13)
I have an Ubuntu 19.04 on a machine with an nvme drive. However, the drive is not found in /dev/nvme*. cat /proc/devices shows that nvme is loaded as a character device and not a block device and ...
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make a pseudo device like /dev/random that outputs primes?
/dev/primes is what I want without writing C code just python which I have known and easily written the program.
The device file should be similar to /dev/urandom that outputs primes instead of ...
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Send Shift PgUp to the console
With a little help from an answer found here I was able to use below script to send keystrokes to the VGA console /dev/tty1
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
open( my $TTY1 , '>' , '/dev/...
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How to create a new character device under /proc/device file?
I am trying to create a node with mknod /tmp/ttyACM0 c 166 0 command but then No such device or address error returns when I try to open serial port with ttyACM0 because there is no device in proc/...
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Does the virtual filesystem work on top of character devices and network subsystems?
Does the virtual filesystem work on top of character devices and network subsystems, or just on top of filesystems and block devices?
Could you also explain a bit about in what sense "the VFS is ...
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Is a device being a block or character device determined purely by hardware?
From https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/472920/674
A "character device" and "block device" are abstractions, usually used in Unix-style systems in classifying various devices.
Is a device being a ...
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Why is the transfer unit of block devices block not page?
Operating System Concepts says
A character-stream device transfers bytes one by one, whereas a block device transfers a block of bytes as a unit.
But I heard that the unit of transfer between main ...
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Do "serial ports" or "parallel ports" apply to character devices only, but not to block devices?
From
http://haifux.org/lectures/86-sil/kernel-modules-drivers/node10.html
A Character ('c') Device is one with which the Driver communicates by
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Are there implications between block/character device and random/sequential access? [closed]
Operating System Concepts says:
Devices vary on many dimensions, as illustrated in Figure 13.7.
• Character-stream or block. A character-stream device transfers bytes
one by one, whereas a block ...
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Can filesystems be created only on block devices, but not on character devices?
Can filesystems be created only on block devices, but not on character devices?
Can a filesystem be viewed as a block device itself (for example, when programming to use a file system)?
My guess is ...
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