Reading Serial Data From C (OSX /dev/tty)

Question

I am trying to read data from a bluetooth barcode scanner (KDC300) using C. Here is the code I have so far, and the program successfully establishes a bluetooth connection to the scanner, but when a barcode is scanned, no input is displayed on the screen (Eventually more will be done with the data, but we have to get it working first, right).

Here is the program:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <termios.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>

int main (int argc, const char * argv[]) {

    // define vars
    int STOP = 0;
    //char buf[255];

    if(argv[1])
    {
        int fd = open("/dev/tty.KDC1", O_RDONLY);
        if(fd == -1)
        {
            printf("%s", strcat("Unable to open /dev/tty.", argv[1]));
        }

        int res;
        while(STOP == 0)
        {
            while((res = read(fd,buf,255)) == 0);
            {
                if(res > 0)
                {
                    buf[res]=0;
                    printf("%s:%d\n", buf, res);
                    if(buf[sizeof(buf)]=='\n') break;   
                }
            }
        }
    }

    return 0;
}

If anyone has any ideas, I am at a loss on this so far. If it is any help, I can run screen /dev/tty.KDC1 and any barcodes scanned on the scanner appear in the terminal, I just can't do anything with the data.

Jud

Answer 1

This line:

        while((res = read(fd,buf,255)) == 0);

Does not do what you think it does. That's a while loop with an empty body.