Good to know!

Am Fr., 30. Nov. 2018 um 02:25 Uhr schrieb Ricardo Moran <
richi.mo...@gmail.com>:

> Hi,
>
> I think I found a bug with the named serial ports in windows.
> I can open a named port without problem the first time but if I close it
> and try to open it again it fails until I restart the image. This doesn't
> happen with numeric ports. I could reproduce this bug in both Squeak5.2 and
> Pharo6.1 (both using windows 8.1).
>
> I think the problem is that SerialPort>>#primClosePortByName: calls the
> "primitiveSerialPortCloseByName" but I couldn't find this primitive
> anywhere in the SerialPlugin source (
> https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/blob/Cog/src/plugins/SerialPlugin/SerialPlugin.c).
> So I'm guessing that the port is never properly closed.
>
> I added the missing primitive (find attached) and recompiled the vm, and
> now it seems to work. So my question is: how can I contribute this small
> fix? Should I commit to the VM Maker Inbox repository?
>
> Thanks,
> Richo
>
>

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