Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 13 Dec 1996 22:43:02 -0500 (EST) | From | Ion Badulescu <> | Subject | Re: Serial Patch |
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On Fri, 13 Dec 1996, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> /* > > I installed the latest tty patch. The call to open a non-existant > terminal device no longer crashes. However, it now returns a valid > handle even if the device does not exist. In this example, there > are only TWO RS-232C ports on this machine! An attempt to open > /dev/cua3 should return with -1 and the error set to something appropriate.
Try 2.0.27 - it does exactly the same thing.
Ionut
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