Giovanni Maruzzelli wrote on 29 May 2008 15:27: > Hi Dave, > > thank you for the answer. > > You mean that this is a bug into 1.7?
My answer was slightly tongue in cheek! :) But yes, it's very likely you've uncovered a bug in 1.7 - it is work-in-progress after all. There might be an issue in the path-handling code, for instance. > Below the errno checking test case ;-) > if (tty < 0) > { > printf ("Unable to open /dev/ttyS5: %s\n", strerror(errno)); > exit (1); > } I don't have Vista (and I'm at work, where I've only got the stable 1.5 series installed anyway), so: what does errno report? cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- 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/