<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <title>Serial Ports</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../../boostbook.css" type="text/css"> <meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.73.2"> <link rel="start" href="../../index.html" title="Asio"> <link rel="up" href="../overview.html" title="Overview"> <link rel="prev" href="timers.html" title="Timers"> <link rel="next" href="posix.html" title="POSIX-Specific Functionality"> </head> <body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"> <table cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td valign="top"><img alt="asio C++ library" width="250" height="60" src="../../asio.png"></td></tr></table> <hr> <div class="spirit-nav"> <a accesskey="p" href="timers.html"><img src="../../prev.png" alt="Prev"></a><a accesskey="u" href="../overview.html"><img src="../../up.png" alt="Up"></a><a accesskey="h" href="../../index.html"><img src="../../home.png" alt="Home"></a><a accesskey="n" href="posix.html"><img src="../../next.png" alt="Next"></a> </div> <div class="section" lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"> <a name="asio.overview.serial_ports"></a><a class="link" href="serial_ports.html" title="Serial Ports"> Serial Ports</a> </h3></div></div></div> <p> Asio includes classes for creating and manipulating serial ports in a portable manner. For example, a serial port may be opened using: </p> <pre class="programlisting"><span class="identifier">serial_port</span> <span class="identifier">port</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="identifier">my_io_service</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="identifier">name</span><span class="special">);</span> </pre> <p> where name is something like <code class="computeroutput"><span class="string">"COM1"</span></code> on Windows, and <code class="computeroutput"><span class="string">"/dev/ttyS0"</span></code> on POSIX platforms. </p> <p> Once opened, the serial port may be used as a <a class="link" href="core/streams.html" title="Streams, Short Reads and Short Writes">stream</a>. This means the objects can be used with any of the <a class="link" href="../reference/read.html" title="read">read()</a>, <a class="link" href="../reference/async_read.html" title="async_read">async_read()</a>, <a class="link" href="../reference/write.html" title="write">write()</a>, <a class="link" href="../reference/async_write.html" title="async_write">async_write()</a>, <a class="link" href="../reference/read_until.html" title="read_until">read_until()</a> or <a class="link" href="../reference/async_read_until.html" title="async_read_until">async_read_until()</a> free functions. </p> <p> The serial port implementation also includes option classes for configuring the port's baud rate, flow control type, parity, stop bits and character size. </p> <a name="asio.overview.serial_ports.see_also"></a><h5> <a name="id485450"></a> <a class="link" href="serial_ports.html#asio.overview.serial_ports.see_also">See Also</a> </h5> <p> <a class="link" href="../reference/serial_port.html" title="serial_port">serial_port</a>, <a class="link" href="../reference/serial_port_base.html" title="serial_port_base">serial_port_base</a>, <a class="link" href="../reference/basic_serial_port.html" title="basic_serial_port">basic_serial_port</a>, <a class="link" href="../reference/serial_port_service.html" title="serial_port_service">serial_port_service</a>, <a class="link" href="../reference/serial_port_base__baud_rate.html" title="serial_port_base::baud_rate">serial_port_base::baud_rate</a>, <a class="link" href="../reference/serial_port_base__flow_control.html" title="serial_port_base::flow_control">serial_port_base::flow_control</a>, <a class="link" href="../reference/serial_port_base__parity.html" title="serial_port_base::parity">serial_port_base::parity</a>, <a class="link" href="../reference/serial_port_base__stop_bits.html" title="serial_port_base::stop_bits">serial_port_base::stop_bits</a>, <a class="link" href="../reference/serial_port_base__character_size.html" title="serial_port_base::character_size">serial_port_base::character_size</a>. </p> <a name="asio.overview.serial_ports.notes"></a><h5> <a name="id485546"></a> <a class="link" href="serial_ports.html#asio.overview.serial_ports.notes">Notes</a> </h5> <p> Serial ports are available on all POSIX platforms. For Windows, serial ports are only available at compile time when the I/O completion port backend is used (which is the default). A program may test for the macro <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">ASIO_HAS_SERIAL_PORTS</span></code> to determine whether they are supported. </p> </div> <table xmlns:rev="http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~gregod/boost/tools/doc/revision" width="100%"><tr> <td align="left"></td> <td align="right"><div class="copyright-footer">Copyright © 2003 - 2010 Christopher M. Kohlhoff<p> Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. 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