At 01:28 AM 3/25/2004, you wrote: >On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Larry Hall wrote: > >> "com" is a reserved name in Windows. It's best to steer clear of it in >> any context you can. You may be catching it in your "if test -c com1" >> version. > >We'd _love_ to steer clear of it, particularly since /dev/ttyS0 >works for two of our targeted systems. > >We need to know that the "if test -c /dev/ttyS0" will work on all >Cygwin boxes from Win95 through WinXP. The test for "com1" was >working just fine except for very recently on a few WinXP systems >(but appears to work on other WinXP boxes). > >I'm delaying a new release and staying with the "if test -d >/proc/registry" bit until we can get that question answered. That >last works but it's ugly.
You're welcome to peruse the Cygwin DLL code for yourself but I see nothing that suggests that /dev/ttyS* is Windows version specific. I can't promise that there aren't bugs that will cause you problems on some Windows O/S version versus another but AFAICS /dev/ttyS* is just a direct mapping to //./com*. So they look synonymous to me under the covers. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
