"open failed: No such file or directory"

[Hariprasad]

main(){
char buf[1024];
int fd, count;
if ((fd = open("/dev/ttya", O_RDWR)) < 0) {
perror("open failed");
exit(1);
}
when i try to run the above code i am getting the following error
"open failed: No such file or directory"
can i anybody help why open system call has failed

[A. Clay Stephenson]

The most obvious answer is that /dev/ttya does not exist.
I really prefer to capture errno myself after a system call failure and display that value. It is also possible that ttya exists but has very screwy major/minor device numbers. Do an ls -l /dev/ttya and post that and we can probably get closer to the problem.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

The most obvious answer is that /dev/ttya does not exist.
I really prefer to capture errno myself after a system call failure and display that value. It is also possible that ttya exists but has very screwy major/minor device numbers. Do an ls -l /dev/ttya and post that and we can probably get closer to the problem.

[Bill Douglass]

Or perhaps do:

ls /dev/tty*

and see what tty devices are actually defined on your system.