[Newbie] How to wait for asyncronous input

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Il 11/08/2012 01:12, Dennis Lee Bieber ha scritto:
> 	What you apparently missed is that serial.read() BLOCKs until data
> is available (unless the port was opened with a read timeout set).
> [...]
>
> 	serial.read() may, there for, be using select() behind the scenes.

Hmm..., so I could open the serial port with timeout=0 so the read(), 
that runs in a different thread, would block forever, so putting the 
thread in a sleep state until some bytes arrive.

When the main thread wants to close the serial port, the receiving 
thread can be killed (I don't know why, but I think it will be possible).