From:	"Damian Yerrick" <web DOT poison AT pineight DOT 8m DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: How to detect drives attached to a system
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote in message
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>8 [dangerous code snipped
> I think this code is dangerous: it will crash under some DPMI servers
> (e.g. QDPMI)

What doesn't crash on QDPMI? Even RHIDE crashed on QDPMI.

> if you try to switch to a floppy drive without a disk, or
> with unformatted disk.  The same happens with a CDROM drive that is empty
> or has an audio disk inserted.
>
> > Is there a more portable way to detect all drives on a system?
>
> Use the library function `getmntent'.  It will report all valid drives
> that have media in them, one by one, and already implements all the
> tricks required to avoid the above-mentioned gotchas.  It also reports
> additional info on the drives, which you might find useful; see the
> library docs for details.

I'll look at it.

> `getmntent' is portable to many Unix systems.

OT: But is it portable to Win32? Mac? Be? What is?

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