Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <3F24EC11.5040705@lynx-technik.com> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 11:25:37 +0200 From: "H. Henning Schmidt" Organization: LYNX Technik AG User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: RE: Serial Port? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Anthony, Since you said you were about to program something for the serial port on cygwin, you might be interested to know that there is the potential to corrupt your memory (and thus crash your program) when doing that in a straight forward way. See here for details: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-03/msg01529.html ;Henning -- _____________________________________ H. Henning Schmidt LYNX Technik AG, Bickenbach, Germany email: Henning DOT Schmidt AT lynx-technik DOT com phone 1: +49 (0) 6150 / 18 17 - 20 phone 2: +49 (0) 6155 / 899 285 fax: +49 (0) 6155 / 899 284 The information in this email is confidential and is intended solely for the addressee. Access by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. LYNX Technik AG _____________________________________ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/