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RE: serial ports not visible with 1.7 under Vista
Giovanni Maruzzelli wrote on 29 May 2008 15:27:
> Hi Dave,
>
> thank you for the answer.
>
> You mean that this is a bug into 1.7?
My answer was slightly tongue in cheek! :) But yes, it's very likely
you've uncovered a bug in 1.7 - it is work-in-progress after all. There
might be an issue in the path-handling code, for instance.
> Below the errno checking test case ;-)
> if (tty < 0)
> {
> printf ("Unable to open /dev/ttyS5: %s\n", strerror(errno));
> exit (1);
> }
I don't have Vista (and I'm at work, where I've only got the stable 1.5
series installed anyway), so: what does errno report?
cheers,
DaveK
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