Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <20040608042248.30125.qmail@web20603.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 21:22:48 -0700 (PDT) From: john george Subject: Cygpath: Path name conversion Issue To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com In-Reply-To: <40C5266E.2030507@att.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-IsSubscribed: yes Hi, I'm trying to convert the following path name to a unix specific format so that it could be passed as a parameter to the Unix "open(..)" system call. cygpath "\\Device\\harddiskdmvolumes\\physicaldmvolumes\\rawvolume3 " The converted path name is not accepted by the "open()" system call due to which I'm not able to access this device. Actually I'm trying to access a raw volume which I'm able to do if I use the CreateFile() API in Windows. I've no clue as to why I'm not able to access this raw device using the "open().." system call. Any suggesstions? Thanks in advance. john __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/ -- 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/