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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 15:29:58 -0500
To: Earnie Boyd <cygwin@cygwin.com>, Jesper Eskilson <jojo@virtutech.se>
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall@rfk.com>
Subject: Re: Accessing disk-devices
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At 03:01 PM 2/22/2001, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>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
>?


Its a good question.  I read it as him indicating that he wanted to know 
if he could use this notation in code using POSIX APIs but I agree the 
exact scope of the question is unclear.



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