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Date:	Mon, 18 Aug 2003 14:49:19 +0200
From:	Marcel Telka <marcel AT telka DOT sk>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Cc:	Kiran Bacche <kiran DOT bacche AT wipro DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Driver help
Message-ID:	<20030818124919.GA1051@aragorn.etc.sk>
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In-Reply-To:	<DC91351678E31E4FB24B551221F507EC6D6B8B@blr-itp-msg.wipro.com>; from kiran.bacche@wipro.com on Po, aug 18, 2003 at 07:43:27 +0200
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Hi Kiran.

On 2003.08.18 07:43, Kiran Bacche wrote:
> The ioperm package was very helpful. Thanks for that.
> U was now able to compile a sample driver into a .sys file.
> I used the SCOpenManager and CreateProcess to get it loaded.

Try use CreateService() to install the driver and StartService() to 
start it. And please see admin directory in ioperm sources.

> 
> So in effeect, when a write an application program
> hPort = CreateFile(
>                        "\\DosDevices\\mydevice",
>                        0,
>                        0,
>                        NULL,
>                        0,
>                        0,
>                        NULL);
> 
> if (hPort == (HANDLE)-1)
>     {
>     printf("Open failed :%lx\n",hCommPort);
>     return -1;
>     }
> 
> I thought it would succeed. But CreateFile failed!
> 
> What may be the reason? A snippet of the CYGWIN code for win driver is
> as follows:
> 
>  RtlInitUnicodeString( &DeviceName, L"\\Device\\mydevice" );
>  RtlInitUnicodeString( &SymbolicLinkName, L"\\DosDevices\
> \mydevice" );
>  IoCreateDevice( DriverObject, 0, &DeviceName, ...
>  IoCreateSymbolicLink( &SymbolicLinkName, &DeviceName...


Regards.

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