[Wine] Re: COM port issues.

[vitamin]

Niarbeht wrote:
> I'm trying to run some old proprietary software which *barely* qualifies as being win32.  It installs flawlessly, and has only minor draw issues when it comes to the main screen itself.  Everything seems fine and dandy, except that Wine starts spitting tons of errors if I try to make the software talk via the COM port to the device it's supposed to talk to.
> 
> The error that gets spit out endlessly when trying to communicate with WINEDEBUG=-all prepending the command to run the program itself is:
> 
> 
> Code:
> wine client error:132: pipe: Too many open files
> wine client error:133: pipe: Too many open files
> wine client error:134: pipe: Too many open files
> wine client error:135: pipe: Too many open files
> wine client error:136: pipe: Too many open files
> wine client error:137: pipe: Too many open files
> wine client error:138: pipe: Too many open files
> wine client error:139: pipe: Too many open files
> wine client error:13a: pipe: Too many open files
> wine client error:13b: pipe: Too many open files
> wine client error:13c: pipe: Too many open files
> 
> 
> 
> There is another error which it spits out when run without WINEDEBUG=-all but the program performs so horrendously when this is true that I am loathe to try it again.
> 
> I do know that WINE can communicate with the device over the COM port, however anything that actually tries to fully utilize the COM port seems to end in a pile of error messages.  I'm going to try to get someone who understands the software and hardware better to get involved in communication here.
> 
> Hopefully someone out there has some ideas on potential workarounds or possible configuration issues which may exist with the computer itself.


What does 
Code:
ulimit -n

 say? Can you increase it and see what happens?