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Re: intercepting serial comms
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: tns1 <tns1 at cox dot net>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 11:10:17 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: intercepting serial comms
- References: <dirjdq$mcl$1@sea.gmane.org> <djgr42$ld0$1@sea.gmane.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Sun, 23 Oct 2005, tns1 wrote:
> tns1 wrote:
>
> > Is is possible to redirect the serial comms of a program after it has
> > already launched and opened /dev/com1?
>
> If not, is it possible to create virtual serial ports under cygwin? To
> do this under linux I believe you need to add a kernel module.
To do this under Cygwin also requires adding a kernel module -- which
makes sense once you realize that the Cygwin kernel is essentially Windows
(plus cygwin1.dll). If you add a virtual serial port under Windows (see
MSDN for instructions), Cygwin should be able to use it.
Igor
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