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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 20:32:47 +0100
From: Jesper Eskilson <jojo AT virtutech DOT se>
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Subject: Accessing disk-devices
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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.

/Jesper

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