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RE: serial ports not visible with 1.7 under Vista
Giovanni Maruzzelli wrote on 29 May 2008 13:59:
> I cannot see the serial ports (/dev/ttyS*), it seems that they do not
> exist under Vista (tried both as a user with admin rights and as
> Administrator, and tried also with AUC disabled).
>
> Is this a known bug?
What, not checking errno?
> int main (int argc, char* argv[])
> {
> int tty;
>
> tty = open ("/dev/ttyS5", O_RDWR | O_NOCTTY | O_NONBLOCK);
>
> if (tty < 0)
> {
> printf ("Unable to open /dev/ttyS5\n");
> exit (1);
> }
>
> close (tty);
>
> return 0;
> }
Yeh, that's one of the classics! ;-)
cheers,
DaveK
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