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“Duplicate” serial device – read/write from 2 processes

I have a serial/rs485 converter to read/write from a Modbus device.
I have the need to be able to read and write from 2 process.

How can i “copy” the real device /dev/ttyUSB0 to specify in my programm the virtual devices as i would with the physcial one? E.g. (/dev/ttyUSB0-1, /dev/ttyUSB-2).

I have tried it with socat:

socat -d -d pty,raw,echo=0,link=/dev/ttyUSB0-1 pty,raw,echo=0,link=/dev/ttyUSB0
socat -d -d pty,raw,echo=0,link=/dev/ttyUSB0-2 pty,raw,echo=0,link=/dev/ttyUSB0

But no program gets a response.
Not sure if the request even reaches the real serial device.