Re: Virtual Serial Port

Holy Aavu
2006-03-27T11:25:24Z

On 3/25/06, Mikado <mikado4vn@gmail.com> wrote:
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> My machine has only one serial port. Now I want to add more *software*
> (virtual) serial ports. I also want to make a virtual serial cable
> between a real serial port and a virtual one OR between virtual ports.
> Is there any way to solve that problem in our universe?

I have a doubt... I am not sure if you can have a full working
solution to make all programs run using the virtual serial ports.
Because, there *might* be some programs which actually use the 'in'
and 'out' instructions of the processor directly from a user space
program. (After calling iopl/ioperm etc to elevate their I/O
privileges to directly use the IO ports) I dont think even a kernel
change can help in that case...

Is my understanding correct or am I missing something?

>
> Thanks,
> Mikado.
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