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 864 242 5100 x3884 >>> Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2/23/2007 8:49:24 AM >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF3vDj84KuGfSFAYARAvBLAJ498a9k9mUN+QrQx0ormMBTpKEJcwCglCk5 E/onUjp0Yx+BwUpIwaWGUGk= =MZr8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
