Sharing a serial port between two processes

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Published on 2012-10-17T12:01:18Z Indexed on 2012/10/18 17:07 UTC
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As it is not possible to directly share a serial port between two processes using Linux, I am looking for another way to achieve this, I have heard about socat but could not find a concrete example of how to realize the following:

Split one physical serial port (/dev/ttyUSB0) into two virtual ports, one for reading and one for writing, as one process only needs to send data, and one only needs to receive data.

I can no modify the sending application unfortunately.

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