node-serialport: Getting back 'true' for error when using serialport with electron

Operating System and Hardware: ubuntu 14.04 desktop NodeJS Version: 4.4.0 Serialport version: 3.1.2 Python Version (if you’re having trouble building serialport): 2.7.6 (Run node -v && npm -v && python --version to get the version numbers.)

Expected behavior

The port to open, or at minimum more useful error details

Actual behavior

Port doesn’t open, and I’m given an error of true

Steps and/or code to reproduce the issue

At first I was getting hit by the npm mismatch error. With the help of #538 I ran ../node-pre-gyp/bin/node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build --runtime=electron --target=1.1.0 --target_arch=x64 --update-binary --dist-url=https://atom.io/download/atom-shell in my node_modules/serialport directory. This quickly cleared up this issue.

It should be noted that non-electron code works as expected on my machine 😦

Good, non-electron code: https://gist.github.com/jjshoe/79b161cd4abef34f23f13b4c79e73044 Bad, electron code: https://gist.github.com/jjshoe/86f99a8a7126c90f7c73db94cd1c7de0 Bad, electron code, output: https://gist.github.com/jjshoe/f9e25a1409001dd31214d0b2373f4b27

I tried to modify the C code to get better output, but C is way beyond my abilities. It would have been nice to see the raw data.