9.8.05: Serial Communication Support on Cygwin

[Christopher Faylor]

On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 04:36:39PM +0530, Sudarshan Parthasarathy wrote:
>This is Sudarshan.  I am trying to work with serial ports on Windows
>using only C library API's like open, read etc.But I am unable to find
>a way to set the serial communication attributes, espeically OVERLAPPED
>or NON_OVERLAPPED IO with "open".  Ofcourse Windows provides the
>API-"CreateFile", which will do the job, but I don't want to use it.
>Essentially I need to use as less of Windows functions for serial
>communications.
>
>I came across Cygwin, and am curious how Cygwin does it on Windows?
>Would be glad to get some answers...Thanks in advance

If Cygwin needs to do overlapped I/O, it does overlapped I/O.  Cygwin
uses the Windows API to emulate linux functionality.
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