Serial Port Library [Windows/Linux]

In many projects we need to communicate with external equipment, and most of time this communication is done, through a serial port. In order to reduce development time or make easier the prototyping step, i have decided to write my own serial port library and share it with the universe. An exemple of use, where all data received are transmitted,

#include <stdio.h>
#include "../inc/serial.h"

// Create serial port
serial serial;

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
    char buffer[256] = {0};
    int length = 0;
 
    // Open serial port ("COM3", "/dev/ttyUSB0")
    serial.Open("COM3", 9600, 8, NO, 1);
 
    while(1)
    {
        // Wait character(s)
        length = serial.Read(buffer);
  
        if(length)
        {  
            // Send data
            serial.Write(buffer, length);
        }
    }
 
    // Close serial port
    serial.Close();
 
    return 0;
}

The read() method is non blocking and return the number of received data. This library is available here. I used Orwell Dev-C++ under Windows and a basic text editor under Linux.