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hce, le Sat 01 Mar 2008 20:20:21 +1100, a écrit :
> One more thing, if a serial port is not connected by a serial cable,
> it can still open a serila port without errors. That was very stange
> to everybody when a problem printed out "Open Serial Port /dev/com1
> success", but actually there was no cable connected to that port. Is
> it a bug in Cygwin?

That's not a bug: a daemon can then open a port and detect whenever you
plug something and switch it on.

Samuel

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