Serial port multiplexing

Lee Braiden lee_b at digitalunleashed.com
Thu Aug 25 13:27:24 UTC 2005


On Thursday 25 August 2005 14:15, Rahul Tank wrote:
> Sorry sir, but i just to somehow free my serial port.I
> want to change the serial driver in such a way that it
> should support for multiple ports (say
> /dev/ttyS0,/dev/ttyS1...) but they are not used simultaneously.

If nothing is using the /dev/ttyS0 device, then something else should be able 
to use it.  If, on the other hand, you can't access a device because some 
other program is using it, that's a safety feature.

What exactly is the problem you're having?

-- 
Lee Braiden
http://www.DigitalUnleashed.com
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