Re: Virtual Serial Port

[Jan Engelhardt]

>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?

You could write a device driver implementing virtual serial ports. Then you 
just add an ioctl that connects/disconnects virtual ports to real ports if 
desired.
I do not quite see what this would be good for, but I am sure it's 
good for learning or for fun. :)



Jan Engelhardt
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