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From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 10:04:52 +0100
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Subject: Re: Direct CDrom access in cygwin (ie. ioctl)
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On Monday 18 December 2000 05:11, case AT seattle DOT gii DOT 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

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