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On 09/27/2006, ahnkle wrote:
> On 18:36 Wed 27 Sep     , Igor Peshansky wrote:
> > > 
> > > #define PORT "com1"
> > > ...
> > >   fd = open(PORT, O_RDWR | O_NOCTTY );
> > > 
> > > There's your problem.  When you open a port as "com1", it looks like a
> > > file to Cygwin, since it doesn't recognize it as a valid device name.
> > > Thus any attempt to manipulate that fd as a device will fail.
> > > 
> > > Use the Cygwin device (e.g., "/dev/ttyS0").
> 
> Strangely, com1 *does* work in the call to open. Having tried "/dev/ttyS0",
> tcgetattr() works ok.
> 
> I also note that read() and write() work ok too using "com1", but
> tcsetattr() also fails.

"/dev/ttyS0" is an emulated device in Cygwin.  "com1" is a DOS/Windows device.
If you want POSIX behavior from a device, use the Cygwin emulated device.
Otherwise, you're stuck with DOS/Windows devices and their semantics.  That's
why "/dev/ttyS0" exists.  There's no magic here.  And there certainly isn't
any bug.

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