serial patch - second attempt

Corinna Vinschen cygwin-patches@cygwin.com
Wed Jul 24 01:13:00 GMT 2002


On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 10:10:52AM +0200, Jacek Trzcinski wrote:
> What means !!!!! :-)

It means:

  If you think that the name of the new capability is inappropriate,
  please suggest another name.

Corinna

> 
> Jacek
> 
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 10:01:39AM +0200, Jacek Trzcinski wrote:
> > > Hi !
> > > I think that there is a problem with this name. In case of serial
> > > initialization (in method fhandler_serial::open()) it could be utilized
> > > because its goal is connected with name - it initializes RTS and DTR
> > > serial lines. Problem is in method fhandler_serial::ioctl().
> > > Conditional paths utilized by me are concerned with the fact that under
> > > NT , native serial device driver supports reading of RTS and DTR lines
> > > by DeviceIoControl() function. Under 9x native serial driver does not
> > > support it so utilized variables dsr and rts, setting in different
> > > places of fhandler_serial.cc. Thus in my opinion, saying
> > > "must_init_serial_line" in ioctl() method is not accurate because there
> > > is none initialization there.
> > 
> > 
> > !!!!!
> > 
> > Corinna
> > 
> > --
> > Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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> > Red Hat, Inc.

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