Hi Richo,
Yes, the VMMaker Inbox is the right place for your fix.
Levente
On Thu, 29 Nov 2018, Ricardo Moran wrote:
Hi,
I think I found a bug with the named serial ports in windows. I can open a named port without problem the first time but if I close it and try to open it again it fails until I restart the image. This doesn't happen with numeric ports. I could reproduce this bug in both Squeak5.2 and Pharo6.1 (both using windows 8.1).
I think the problem is that SerialPort>>#primClosePortByName: calls the "primitiveSerialPortCloseByName" but I couldn't find this primitive anywhere in the SerialPlugin source (https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/blob/Cog/src/plugins/Seria...). So I'm guessing that the port is never properly closed.
I added the missing primitive (find attached) and recompiled the vm, and now it seems to work. So my question is: how can I contribute this small fix? Should I commit to the VM Maker Inbox repository?
Thanks, Richo