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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 15:11:12 -0500
To: Jesper Eskilson <jojo AT virtutech DOT se>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: Accessing disk-devices
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At 02:32 PM 2/22/2001, 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.
>
>/Jesper



Yes, I believe this will work but you'll have to test it out in your 
specific situation. 



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