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Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 11:25:37 +0200
From: "H. Henning Schmidt" <Henning.Schmidt@lynx-technik.com>
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Subject: RE: Serial Port?
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Anthony,


Since you said you were about to program something for the serial port 
on cygwin, you might be interested to know that there is the potential 
to corrupt your memory (and thus crash your program) when doing that in 
a straight forward way.

See here for details: 
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-03/msg01529.html

;Henning

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