Thank you Christopher!! I'll try the snapshot tomorrow as soon as I'll be back in office and then I'll report back.
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 7:12 PM, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 07:02:40PM +0200, Giovanni Maruzzelli wrote: >>Correction, my last post was ambiguous: >> >>\\\\.\\com6 gives me "Device or resource busy", while all other com* >>give me "not existing". >>So, it is definitely better, it finds something! But do not yet works. > > This is a red herring. It is not going to work: > > "It won't recognize it as a serial device." > >>====> Opening and read/writing to COM6 with native win32 API (readfile >>etc) works well, both compiled with and without -mno-cygwin > > -mno-cygwin and native win32 apis really have little bearing on Cygwin. > > I'm regenerating a snapshot which translates /dev/ttyS0 -> //Global??/COM1 and > /dev/com1 -> /??/com1, using the same "symlink" as is used by the windows api. > > I would appreciate it if you could try the snapshot when it becomes available > and report if both /dev/ttyS5 and /dev/com6 work as you expect. > > cgf > > -- > 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/
