[slinkelist] Possible slink-x enhancement?

[Michael Holopainen]

my 0.02$
The simplest solution is usually the best = get extra com-port. You can
find old i/o card (from pre pentium machines) for almost free. There
usually is 2 serial + 1 paraller, just disable the ones you don't need.
(that is if you can spare the irq)

-michael (A)

Richard wrote:
> 
> I have at the moment 2 application that use the paralell port on the slinke,
> 
> what I do at the moment is read the port, toggle the bit I want to change
> and then output it to the port, however if both applications do this at
> once, one of the outputs doesnt happen (Only happens under high load on the
> system)
> 
> Would it be possible to have an application request access to a particular
> IO pin(s), and then its calls will _only_ effect that pin(s), with the
> request being denied if its already been given to another application.
> 
> This would also solve the problem of having to rewrite the aplications
> whenever the use for a partucular pin changed.
> 
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