Hi,
I have a little program , linux native, that I've managed to run thanks to the Linux compat layer. However, this program opens the serial port ttyS1, which doesn't exist as such in 5.2.1.
The question is this: how do I make this program to open the serial port? (FYI, the device it should open is a random number generator.)
This is a complete guess, but I'm curious whether it would work:
You can make links in the /dev directory to existing devices by using entries in /etc/devfs.conf, so in this case you could add a line like:
link cuaa1 ttyS1
This works fine with FreeBSD native applications, so I use links like this for my old serial port palm base, and for a cdrom link. Whether it would work with Linux compatibility stuff, I don't know. But, as I said, I'd be interested to find out.
HTH
Peter.
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