Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 08:20:23 +0200
From: Zaretskii Eli <ezaretski AT elta DOT co DOT il>
Subject: RE: call to 'open' causes all sleeping drives to awaken!
To: Sander Pool <sander DOT biteme AT biteme DOT sanders-stuff DOT com>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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> From: Sander Pool [mailto:sander DOT biteme AT biteme DOT sanders-stuff DOT com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 6:26 AM
> 
> I noticed when I used a program compiled with DJGPP that all 
> sleeping drives
> in my system spin up.

Please tell what drive letters are assigned to those drives.  It is
impossible to try to understand whether this is normal or some
bug/config problem without knowing at least that much.

> It's reason enough for me to forgo DJGPP and
> use MinGW instead.

That is your prerogative and your decision.  The importance of the
problem you reported doesn't change at all due to your saying so.


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