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Re: Serial port using USB adaptor
- From: Samuel Thibault <samuel dot thibault at ens-lyon dot org>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 10:05:11 +0000
- Subject: Re: Serial port using USB adaptor
- References: <95455e980802281743x3651991av6d87d34b39106332@mail.gmail.com> <20080229094523.GR9539@calimero.vinschen.de> <95455e980802290320l442955cbhee643416669f0a8d@mail.gmail.com> <20080229115254.GA7989@calimero.vinschen.de> <95455e980803010120h7d612e82oe834e3f085149937@mail.gmail.com>
hce, le Sat 01 Mar 2008 20:20:21 +1100, a écrit :
> One more thing, if a serial port is not connected by a serial cable,
> it can still open a serila port without errors. That was very stange
> to everybody when a problem printed out "Open Serial Port /dev/com1
> success", but actually there was no cable connected to that port. Is
> it a bug in Cygwin?
That's not a bug: a daemon can then open a port and detect whenever you
plug something and switch it on.
Samuel
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