Unix: How to clear the serial port I/O buffer?

问题

I am working on a "high level" C++ interface for the standard PC serial port. When I open the port, I would like to clear the input and output buffers in order not to receive or send data from previous usage of the port. To do that, I use the tcflush function. However, it does not work. How can that be? My "port opening" code can be seen below. Yes I use C++ exceptions but none are getting thrown. That indicates that tcflush returns 0 but it does not clear the buffer.

The only way I can clear the input buffer is to read bytes from it until there is none left. This usually takes a couple of seconds and I do not think of it as a solution.

Thanks in advance :-)

fd = ::open(port.c_str(), O_RDWR | O_NOCTTY);

if (fd < 0)
{
    throw OpenPortException(port);
    return;
}

// Get options
tcgetattr(fd, &options);

// Set default baud rate 9600, 1 stop bit, 8 bit data length, no parity
options.c_cflag &= ~PARENB;
options.c_cflag &= ~CSTOPB;
options.c_cflag &= ~CSIZE;
options.c_cflag |= CS8;

// Default timeout (1000 ms)
options.c_cc[VMIN] = 0;
options.c_cc[VTIME] = 10;

// Additional options
options.c_cflag |= (CLOCAL | CREAD);

this->port = port;

// Apply the settings now
if (tcsetattr(fd, TCSANOW, &options) != 0)
{
    throw PortSettingsException();
}

// Flush the port
if (tcflush(fd, TCIOFLUSH) != 0)
{
    throw IOException();
}

回答1:

Try

ioctl(fd, TCFLUSH, dir)

with dir equal to 0 for receive, 1 for transmit, 2 for both.

回答2:

This is the correct way (as below):

usleep(1000);
ioctl(fd, TCFLSH, 0); // flush receive
ioctl(fd, TCFLSH, 1); // flush transmit
ioctl(fd, TCFLSH, 2); // flush both

User can choose both of the first 2 lines OR last line alone based on requirement. Please check if sleep may be required.

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22018281/unix-how-to-clear-the-serial-port-i-o-buffer

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