Preventing reset on serial connect?

Hi!

It might be. What operating system are you on? What's your application written in?

At the moment I'm using OS X. My application uses Tod's arduino-serial (Arduino-serial: C code to talk to Arduino – todbot blog) to send information to the Arduino from a simple perl script. (The perl script SSHes into a remote server and gathers some stats to display on the Arduino.)

Can you simply keep the serial connection open the whole time?

Keeping a serial connection constantly open is one possible workaround, but I was wondering if there's a way to temporarily disable the Arduino's software reset so that I would not have to have keep the serial connection open.

Thanks!