At least under WinXP SP3 the output of /proc/partitions does not longer
list sda1, sda2, ... even if run with admin rights:
# cygcheck -f /bin/cygwin1.dll
cygwin-1.7.7-1
# cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name
8 0 976762584 sda
8 16 976762584 sdb
It worked with 1.7.5-1 (but with admin rights only).
strace output contains this line for each missing sdXN:
... [main] cat 3992 format_proc_partitions: DeviceIoControl Win32 error 5
Problem is likely introduced by fhandler_proc.cc 1.91. The new method
without FILE_READ_DATA permission may work on Win7 but is apparently not
backward compatible with XP.
Christian
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