Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <3A957032.380BD5B@yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 15:01:54 -0500 From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: Earnie Boyd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jesper Eskilson CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Accessing disk-devices References: <3A95695F DOT A9C3BC45 AT virtutech DOT se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jesper Eskilson wrote: > > Hi! > > Is there any way of accessing disk-devices under Cygwin (something like > using the "\\.\:" 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. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple