Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 11:10:17 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin 1.5.18 and //./PhysicalDrive?? Message-ID: <20051104101017.GX2988@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20051104095323.GU2988@calimero.vinschen.de> <20051104100656.GV2988@calimero.vinschen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051104100656.GV2988@calimero.vinschen.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i On Nov 4 11:06, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > It just occured to me that you still can use the same pathname when > using backslashes instead of forward slashes. > > dd if=\\\\.\\physicaldrive0 count=1 | od -x > > works since paths with a backslash are treated as Win32 paths and are > not subject to the POSIX normalization and path conversion. > > However, not that Win32 paths like the above are not treated as devices, ^^^ note > but as plain files. For instance, you'll fail to use device specific > ioctls. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/