Direct CDrom access in cygwin (ie. ioctl)

Corinna Vinschen cygwin@cygwin.com
Mon Dec 18 01:04:00 GMT 2000


On Monday 18 December 2000 05:11, case@seattle.gii.net wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I'm trying to port my 'distributed CD Ripping tool' to the windows
> platform and Im faced with the following problem; On Unix systems I
> use a java front end that fires off a platform specific binary that
> rips the CD (ie. cdparanoia, tosha, or dagrab) and communicates to
> the java application using a local socket.  Very straightforward on
> unix, but is there somthing similar to, for example the ioctl to get
> the toc, and to readaudio ? 

I fear you're out of luck. The win32 interface is everything but
straightforward. To emulate a Unix like API you have to write
a new handler in Cygwin for each sort of device. If you want an
ioctl interface for CD-ROMs, you will have to contribute it to
Cygwin by yourself, probably.

Corinna

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