[Wine] Re: Serial port woes SOLVED

[Daniel Skorka]

CptDondo <yan at nsoesipnaemr.com> wrote:
> OK here's the deal:
> 
> Apparently whatever does the timeout thing for file IO is waaaay too 
> short-tempered.
> 
> I fixed the problem by preventing the fileIO from closing on timeout - 
> apparently forever, but who cares, it works.
> 
> Comment out the following lines in ./dlls/ntdll/file.c in two places:
> 
> //            wine_server_release_fd( hFile, unix_handle );
> //            return STATUS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED;
> 
> and both USB-serial dongles and PCMCIA-serial cards will work.

Hmm, that's interesting. Could you maybe shed a bit more light on the
background? It would be nice if this could be really fixed, instead of a
hack.

Daniel