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Subject: Re: more serial ports
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On Oct  6 14:22, ahnkle wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have more that 9 serial ports on my machine, some real, some virtual.
> 
> When I recently tried to open /dev/ttyS21 it failed. Is this :
> 
>   some inbuilt limit?

Yes, Cygwin only allows /dev/ttyS0 up to /dev/ttyS15 so far.  I raised
the limit to 63 in CVS, as for pseudo terminals.


Corinna

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