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Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 14:27:38 +0000
From: Bruce Cran <bruce AT cran DOT org DOT uk>
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Subject: cygwin_conv_path returns wrong device names?
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I need to convert unix device nodes such as /dev/sda to Windows device
names within an application. cygpath returns devices such as:

> cygpath -w /dev/sda
\\.\PhysicalDrive0

That can be opened by both open(2) and CreateFile since it resides
in the global namespace, but cygwin_conv_path returns
\Device\Harddisk0\Partition0 which cygwin can't access.

Shouldn't cygpath and cygwin_conv_path returns the same paths?

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Bruce Cran

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