"test -c com1" hangs on some WinXP systems

["H. Henning Schmidt" <henning at hhschmidt dot de>]

A question slightly besides your point ... but very interesting to me:

What is the benefit of using /dev/ttyS0 instead of "com1" on Cygwin?
Do you have a short explanation for me, or perhaps a pointer to some
more detailed info?

Thanks a lot,
;Henning

On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Curt, WE7U wrote:

> Our application runs on multiple OS'es.  A few of our WinXP users
> (and perhaps Win2k, can't remember) have had "if test -c com1" hang
> during our configure stage.
>
> We've already figured out that we should be using "/dev/ttyS0"
> instead of "com1", and have switched to that.  Because of the hang
> we're trying "if test -d /proc/registry as the test".  If
> /proc/registry is found, we skip the file test for the serial device
> on Cygwin boxes, thereby avoiding the hang.
>
> Excerpt (the version that hangs sometimes):
>
>
>   AC_DEFUN([XASTIR_DETECT_DEVICES],
>   [
>   AC_MSG_CHECKING([for devices])
>   if test -c com1 ; then
>   ac_tnc_port=com1
>   ac_gps_port=com2
>   elif test -c /dev/cuaa0 ; then
>   ac_tnc_port=/dev/cuaa0
>   ac_gps_port=/dev/cuaa1
>
>
> New improved version:
>
>
>   AC_DEFUN([XASTIR_DETECT_DEVICES],
>   [
>   AC_MSG_CHECKING([for devices])
>   if test -d /proc/registry ; then
>   ac_tnc_port=/dev/ttyS0
>   ac_gps_port=/dev/ttyS1
>   elif test -c /dev/cuaa0 ; then
>   ac_tnc_port=/dev/cuaa0
>   ac_gps_port=/dev/cuaa1
>
>
> Should "if test -c com1" or "if test -c /dev/ttyS0" work on Cygwin
> across all Windows platforms it supports?
>
> We'd rather do "if test -c /dev/ttyS0" if possible, so that it's
> similar across all platforms we support.


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H. Henning Schmidt
email: henning@hhschmidt.de
phone: +49 (0) 6155 / 899 283
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