Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: Corinna Vinschen Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 10:04:52 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.99] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: cygwin References: <20001217201121.A25793@seattle.gii.net> In-Reply-To: <20001217201121.A25793@seattle.gii.net> Subject: Re: Direct CDrom access in cygwin (ie. ioctl) MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0012181004520P.21902@cygbert> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id EAA10882 On Monday 18 December 2000 05:11, case@seattle.gii.net wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm trying to port my 'distributed CD Ripping tool' to the windows > platform and Im faced with the following problem; On Unix systems I > use a java front end that fires off a platform specific binary that > rips the CD (ie. cdparanoia, tosha, or dagrab) and communicates to > the java application using a local socket. Very straightforward on > unix, but is there somthing similar to, for example the ioctl to get > the toc, and to readaudio ? I fear you're out of luck. The win32 interface is everything but straightforward. To emulate a Unix like API you have to write a new handler in Cygwin for each sort of device. If you want an ioctl interface for CD-ROMs, you will have to contribute it to Cygwin by yourself, probably. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple