Mail Archives: cygwin/2008/05/29/15:34:13
Thank you Christopher!!
I'll try the snapshot tomorrow as soon as I'll be back in office and
then I'll report back.
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 7:12 PM, Christopher Faylor
<cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 07:02:40PM +0200, Giovanni Maruzzelli wrote:
>>Correction, my last post was ambiguous:
>>
>>\\\\.\\com6 gives me "Device or resource busy", while all other com*
>>give me "not existing".
>>So, it is definitely better, it finds something! But do not yet works.
>
> This is a red herring. It is not going to work:
>
> "It won't recognize it as a serial device."
>
>>====> Opening and read/writing to COM6 with native win32 API (readfile
>>etc) works well, both compiled with and without -mno-cygwin
>
> -mno-cygwin and native win32 apis really have little bearing on Cygwin.
>
> I'm regenerating a snapshot which translates /dev/ttyS0 -> //Global??/COM1 and
> /dev/com1 -> /??/com1, using the same "symlink" as is used by the windows api.
>
> I would appreciate it if you could try the snapshot when it becomes available
> and report if both /dev/ttyS5 and /dev/com6 work as you expect.
>
> cgf
>
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