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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 15:01:54 -0500
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
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To: Jesper Eskilson <jojo@virtutech.se>
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Subject: Re: Accessing disk-devices
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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
?

Earnie.

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