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Subject: Re: howto get  "Volume Seial Number"
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H.Shiozaki wrote:
> Please someone help me!
> I want to get "volume Serial Number" 
> from C: and cuurent drive:
> in conditin on [Win98 + DJGPP-2.03] at least.
> ---
> Is there "Volume Serial Number" term(consept?) in
> Linux, and FreeBSD environment?
> If so, I want "Volume Serial Number" from C-User-Application program.
> 
> Regards
> - - - - -
> FM: H.Shiozaki
> E-Mail: sios_hs AT yahoo DOT co DOT jp
> 

Sorry, the Serial Number (UUID - Universally Unique ID) is a
filesystem-dependant construct on GNU/Linux. It is not understood by the
kernel, so you need either a library call or a custom function to get it.

DOS actually supports the Volume Serial Number through an IOCTL call or
through a `kernel' call.

The IOCTL is:

#include <sys/ioctl.h>

struct drvinfo {
    short infolev;
    long sernum;
    char label[11];
    char type[8];
} drvinfo;
int status;
drvinfo.infolev = 0;
status = ioctl (driveno, DOS_GENBLKREQ, 0x0866, &drvinfo, 0, 0, 25);

It's somewhat harder to use the `kernel' call, since DJGPP does not
actually support it.