not able to read iio file from userspace

Question

I am trying to read following file from C code.

file: /sys/bus/iio/devices/iio\\:device0/in_voltage7_raw

but file pointer I am getting is -1.

Using cat command it is able to read the file.

But I am trying to read the same from my code as follows:

nos_int32 nos_adc_read_port (ADC_PORT_DB *p_port, nos_int32 *data)
{

    char file_name[VALUE_MAX];
    int value;
    char buffer[BUFFER_LENGTH];
    char intBuffer[INT_BUFFER_LENGTH];
    int fd;

    sprintf(file_name, "/sys/bus/iio/devices/iio\\:device0/in_voltage7_raw");

    fd = open(file_name, O_RDONLY);

    if (fd == -1) {
        return(-1);
    }
    if (read(fd, buffer, BUFFER_LENGTH) == -1) {
        return(-1);
    }
    close(fd);
    memcpy(intBuffer, buffer, BUFFER_LENGTH);
    intBuffer[INT_BUFFER_LENGTH-1] = '\0';
    value = atoi(intBuffer);
    *data = value;
    return(0);
}

After the line: fd = open(file_name, O_RDONLY);

value of fd is -1. How can it be solved?

Answer 1

Most command line shells use some characters for special actions and if you're trying to use them as their actual character, you need to prefix them with a backslash to escape them. In this case, your shell needs you to escape the colon when accessing that filename.

In C you don't have this issue so you can put in your code the filename as it truly is, such as:

"/sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:device0/in_voltage7_raw"