Since you said you were about to program something for the serial port on cygwin, you might be interested to know that there is the potential to corrupt your memory (and thus crash your program) when doing that in a straight forward way.
See here for details: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-03/msg01529.html
;Henning
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