GPS Sight - why doesn't it work?

[Torfinn Ingolfsen]

On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 11:23 PM, Marcus Bauer <marcus.bauer at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 22:44 +0200, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
>  > This reads from /tmp/nmeaNP, right?
>  > According to lsof it does:
>  > root at om-gta01:~# lsof /tmp/nmeaNP
>  > COMMAND    PID   USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME
>  > gpsd      1287 nobody    7u  FIFO   0,14      2797 /var/volatile/tmp/nmeaNP
>  > ld-linux. 1300   root   16w  FIFO   0,14      2797 /var/volatile/tmp/nmeaNP
>  > gpv       2222   root    5u  FIFO   0,14      2797 /var/volatile/tmp/nmeaNP
>
>  There is the problem already: /tmp/nmeaNP is a FIFO, = first in first
>  out. Only two processes should have it open, one that writes and one
>  that reads.

Aha. So GPS Sight (gpv) should be fixed to read via gpsd (localhost
port 2947) instead of reading the fifo directly, right?
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Regards,
Torfinn Ingolfsen