From 4def6ef9a94833f8f1b84602b496cd2745336ac1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Edgar <44380483+Edgar242@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 17:27:56 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] When the port Address number was grater than 10 the port
 couldn't be oppened, and a solution to this problem is adding those back
 slashes, other libraries are using this method.

---
 serial_windows.go | 14 +++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/serial_windows.go b/serial_windows.go
index 1eeb14b..1ff72af 100644
--- a/serial_windows.go
+++ b/serial_windows.go
@@ -156,13 +156,17 @@ func (p *port) setSerialConfig(c *Config) error {
 }
 
 func newHandle(c *Config) (handle syscall.Handle, err error) {
+	name := c.Address
+	if len(name) > 0 && name[0] != '\\' {
+		name = "\\\\.\\" + name
+	}
 	handle, err = syscall.CreateFile(
-		syscall.StringToUTF16Ptr(c.Address),
+		syscall.StringToUTF16Ptr(name),
 		syscall.GENERIC_READ|syscall.GENERIC_WRITE,
-		0,   // mode
-		nil, // security
+		0,                     // mode
+		nil,                   // security
 		syscall.OPEN_EXISTING, // create mode
-		0, // attributes
-		0) // templates
+		0,                     // attributes
+		0)                     // templates
 	return
 }