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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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