Access serial port (/dev/tty*) incoming data without polling?

You can use selector() from java. Nio packages.

After writing the application, and testing, I can say that the last assumption made in the question is actually true. If the device is open without the flag "NOBLOCK/NODELAY", the thread will be suspended on the mInputStream.read() until there is data available. No wasteful polling.

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