From: "Dave Korn" <dave.korn@artimi.com>
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Subject: RE: serial ports not visible with 1.7 under Vista
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 15:14:45 +0100
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Giovanni Maruzzelli wrote on 29 May 2008 13:59:

> I cannot see the serial ports (/dev/ttyS*), it seems that they do not
> exist under Vista (tried both as a user with admin rights and as
> Administrator, and tried also with AUC disabled).
> 
> Is this a known bug?

  What, not checking errno?

> int main (int argc, char* argv[])
> {
>  int tty;
> 
>  tty = open ("/dev/ttyS5", O_RDWR | O_NOCTTY | O_NONBLOCK);
> 
>  if (tty < 0)
>   {
>      printf ("Unable to open /dev/ttyS5\n");
>      exit (1);
>   }
> 
>  close (tty);
> 
>  return 0;
> }


  Yeh, that's one of the classics!  ;-)

    cheers,
      DaveK
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