Re: serial ports not visible with 1.7 under Vista

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>]

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

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