Serial port

[Glenn Holmer]

On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 01:19 -0400, Justin Hart wrote:
> I have the following scenario:
> 
> 1)  Program opens serial port
> 2)  Program crashes
> 3)  Now the serial port is hung and can't be re-opened
> 
> Is there a way to close the serial port so that it can be used again
> without rebooting the machine?

Don't you have to remove the lock file? e.g.

rm -f /var/spool/locks/LCK..ttyS1

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