Mail Archives: cygwin-developers/2000/01/10/18:40:58
I mentioned the other prefix because some of the MS documentation refers to
one and not the other. I should have been clearer in pointing out that both
of the prefixes only work under NT. That might have made a little more
sense.
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Faylor [mailto:cgf AT cygnus DOT com]
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2000 5:09 PM
To: Parker, Ron
Cc: DJ Delorie; cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: device names tidbit
On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 04:59:23PM -0600, Parker, Ron wrote:
>Their is another version of this syntax uses a '?' inplace of the '.'. For
>example:
> DEL \\?\c:\somedir\aux
>
>I seem to recall that this only works on NT. I may be wrong, but I vaguely
>recall working on a winsup patch that used this under NT. (It was not a
>complete solution, so I never submitted it.) It is the same mechanism that
>allows us to use "\\.\a:" for raw floppy access in CYGWIN under NT.
I'm unclear as to why you are mentioning this. AFAIK, this does not provide
any more utility than the method that DJ mentioned.
cgf
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