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Re: Accessing disk-devices
- To: Earnie Boyd <cygwin at cygwin dot com>, Jesper Eskilson <jojo at virtutech dot se>
- Subject: Re: Accessing disk-devices
- From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 15:29:58 -0500
- References: <3A95695F.A9C3BC45@virtutech.se>
At 03:01 PM 2/22/2001, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>Jesper Eskilson wrote:
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > Is there any way of accessing disk-devices under Cygwin (something like
> > using the "\\.\<physical-device>:" syntax accepted by the Win32 APIs?
> >
> > Another way around would be to use CreateFile() to open the device and
> > then convert the HANDLE to a Cygwin file-descriptor. The function
> >
> > cygwin_attach_handle_to_fd()
> >
> > looks ok, but I would like it to work in the other direction.
> >
>
>You mean something like
> mount -b //./a: /dev/fd0
> mount -b //./c: /dev/hdc
>?
Its a good question. I read it as him indicating that he wanted to know
if he could use this notation in code using POSIX APIs but I agree the
exact scope of the question is unclear.
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
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