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### Serial Ports

Boost.Asio includes classes for creating and manipulating serial ports in a portable manner. For example, a serial port may be opened using:

    serial_port port(my_io_service, name);

where name is something like `"COM1"` on Windows, and `"/dev/ttyS0"` on POSIX platforms.

Once opened, the serial port may be used as a stream. This means the objects can be used with any of the read(), async_read(), write(), async_write(), read_until() or async_read_until() free functions.

The serial port implementation also includes option classes for configuring the port's baud rate, flow control type, parity, stop bits and character size.

##### See Also

serial_port, serial_port_base, basic_serial_port, serial_port_service, serial_port_base::baud_rate, serial_port_base::flow_control, serial_port_base::parity, serial_port_base::stop_bits, serial_port_base::character_size.

##### Notes

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 `BOOST_ASIO_HAS_SERIAL_PORT` to determine whether they are supported.