Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com> List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/> List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs> Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 22:28:39 -0800 (PST) From: Curt Mills <archer AT eskimo DOT com> X-X-Sender: archer AT wapiti DOT we7u DOT net To: Cygwin List <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> Subject: Re: "test -c com1" hangs on some WinXP systems In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.0.20040324194546.03cadb00@127.0.0.1> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0403242222550.30739-100000@wapiti.we7u.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS 0.3.12pre8 X-IsSubscribed: yes On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Larry Hall wrote: > "com" is a reserved name in Windows. It's best to steer clear of it in > any context you can. You may be catching it in your "if test -c com1" > version. We'd _love_ to steer clear of it, particularly since /dev/ttyS0 works for two of our targeted systems. We need to know that the "if test -c /dev/ttyS0" will work on all Cygwin boxes from Win95 through WinXP. The test for "com1" was working just fine except for very recently on a few WinXP systems (but appears to work on other WinXP boxes). I'm delaying a new release and staying with the "if test -d /proc/registry" bit until we can get that question answered. That last works but it's ugly. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" -- 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/