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Re: CreateFile() and fopen issues on vista
Eric,
Thank you for the information! This is exactly what I was hoping you would do; suggest an alternative. I will look into it.
Kirk Russell
Kirk Russell
IT BJU
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>>> Eric Blake <ericblake@comcast.net> 2/23/2007 8:49:24 AM >>>
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http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PPIOSPE - I was on vacation, and did not see
your personal reply for several days, whereas the list would have faster
response.
According to Kirk Russell on 2/20/2007 3:17 PM:
> In general, it is a bad idea to mix Windows APIs with cygwin, since
> you are going behind cygwin's back, and can no longer guarantee
> cygwin's POSIX-y behavior. Using CreateFile from a cygwin program
> is asking for problems. Use fopen() or open() instead.
>
> Eric,
>
> I am using CreatFile() to create a handle that is passed to DeviceIoControl() in order to get product id and version from the USB drive. Are you saying that I could use fopen to do the same?
>
> Thanks for the reply
> Kirk
DeviceIoControl is yet another non-cygwin function that goes behind
cygwin's back. I'm not familiar enough with what you are trying to do to
know if a cygwin ioctl() would get at the same information.
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Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
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