Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/05/03/14:51:19
On May 3 18:06, Eric Blake wrote:
> The limitation here is not in dd, but in cygwin-1.5.16's use of the underlying
> Window's features to access raw devices. Just because Linux has chosen
> to allow a non-block access of a block-special device (implemented as a block
> read, edit, block write sequence), it does not mean that Windows has to do
> likewise. Perhaps cygwin 1.5.17 can be patched to do a read-write sequence
> on block-special raw devices when write(2) is unaligned or not a full block, at
> which point dd would automatically work in the way you desire. And if you
> really want that feature, consider patching cygwin yourself. Also, from your
> original description, it sounds like write(2) was failing with ENOSPC when
> Windows rejected the non-aligned write, although the better error to comply
> with POSIX would have been ENXIO for a request outside of the device's
> capabilities. I'd have to see an strace output to be sure (but right now I'm
> not brave enough to risk overwriting my own MBR as an experiment to generate
> such an strace output).
I like the read/write idea and I'd be happy to see a patch for this.
If you want to debug this, why not just write to /dev/fd0? The floppy
isn't handled any different in writing to raw devices.
Corinna
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