Thanks a lot Dave! Seems that it is looking for a \Device\Serial5
This is the relevant part from strace on Vista: 39 36235 [main] ciapa 3780 open: open (/dev/ttyS5, 0xC002)^M 47 36282 [main] ciapa 3780 normalize_posix_path: src /dev/ttyS5^M 38 36320 [main] ciapa 3780 normalize_posix_path: /dev/ttyS5 = normalize_posix_path (/dev/ttyS5)^M 42 36362 [main] ciapa 3780 mount_info::conv_to_win32_path: conv_to_win32_path (/dev/ttyS5)^M 43 36405 [main] ciapa 3780 mount_info::conv_to_win32_path: src_path /dev/ttyS5, dst \Device\Serial5, flags 0x2, rc 0^M 70 36475 [main] ciapa 3780 build_fh_pc: fh 0x6125271C^M 39 36514 [main] ciapa 3780 fhandler_serial::open: fhandler_serial::open (/dev/ttyS5, 0xC002, 0x9)^M 49 36563 [main] ciapa 3780 fhandler_base::open: (\Device\Serial5, 0xC002)^M 105 36668 [main] ciapa 3780 seterrno_from_win_error: /netrel/src/cygwin-1.7.0-16/winsup/cygwin/fhandler.cc:631 windows error 2^M 42 36710 [main] ciapa 3780 geterrno_from_win_error: windows error 2 == errno 2^M 38 36748 [main] ciapa 3780 __set_errno: void seterrno_from_win_error(const char*, int, DWORD):313 val 2^M 38 36786 [main] ciapa 3780 fhandler_base::open: C0000034 = NtCreateFile (0x60FF0000, C0000000, \Device\Serial5, io, NULL, 0, 7, 1, 4400, NULL, 0)^M 98 36884 [main] ciapa 3780 fhandler_base::open: 0 = fhandler_base::open (\Device\Serial5, 0xC002)^M 101 36985 [main] ciapa 3780 open: -1 = open (/dev/ttyS5, 0xC002)^M 163 37148 [main] ciapa 3780 cygpsid::debug_print: get_sids_info: owner SID = S-1-5-21-1379031178-664686864-1231587414-1001^M 43 37191 [main] ciapa 3780 cygpsid::debug_print: get_sids_info: group SID = S-1-5-21-1379031178-664686864-1231587414-513^M 42 37233 [main] ciapa 3780 get_info_from_sd: ACL 1A4, uid 1001, gid 513^M 73 37306 [main] ciapa 3780 fhandler_base::fstat_helper: 0 = fstat (, 0x22C3F0) st_atime=483ECD0F st_size=26173, st_mode=0x81A4, st_ino=4503599627584995, sizeof=96^M 41 37347 [main] ciapa 3780 fstat64: 0 = fstat (1, 0x22C3F0)^M 286 37633 [main] ciapa 3780 close: close (0)^M 65 37698 [main] ciapa 3780 init_cygheap::manage_console_count: fhandler_tty_slave::close: console_count 2, amount -1, ctty /dev/tty1, avoid_freeing_console 0^M 39 37737 [main] ciapa 3780 fhandler_tty_slave::close: /dev/tty1 closed, usecount 2^M 38 37775 [main] ciapa 3780 fhandler_tty_slave::close: just returning because archetype usecount is != 0^M 39 37814 [main] ciapa 3780 close: 0 = close (0)^M 272 38086 [main] ciapa 3780 fhandler_base::write: binary write^M Unable to open /dev/ttyS5: No such file or directory On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Dave Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Giovanni Maruzzelli wrote on 29 May 2008 16:12: > >> Errno reports just "no such file or directory". >> Same if you try something like "echo ATH > /dev/ttyS5" >> >> Probably some 1.7 initialization is not done in the same way as in 1.5.25. >> >> It is a sad situation for me: >> with 1.5.25 waveinopen crashes (but it works in 1.7) >> with 1.7 serial ports are missing (but present in 1.5.25) >> >> Any help very appreciated > > Until one of the main developers can attend to it and then upload an > updated snapshot, you might be able to get some useful information for them > by running your test under 'strace'; you'll be able to see the translation > from unix to dos path, and see what gets passed to the actual underlying O/S > CreateFile call. By comparing it between 1.5 and 1.7, you might narrow down > the cause pretty well. > > > cheers, > DaveK > -- > Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
