Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com From: Sam Edge To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Portable Cygwin on a CD Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 23:42:18 +0100 Organization: . Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Posting-Agent: Hamster/2.0.0.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id h46MgcA02954 Greetings again. Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote in in gmane.os.cygwin on Tue, 6 May 2003 10:48:38 +0200 (CEST): > I don't have the slightest clue on how to lock a CD-ROM drive, though.. The DeviceIoControl() API has the IOCTL_STORAGE_MEDIA_REMOVAL control code to enable/disable removal of media in NT-series OSes. I know the same can be done in 9x-series but I'm don't know what API call is needed. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/devio/base/ioctl_storage_media_removal.asp > but the code for looking whether Cygwin is running can be found in Cygwin > itself, so that's mostly a matter of copying & pasting :) Ah. I've not looked. I was thinking of monitoring the DLL load/unload and counting. If Cygwin does this itself, that's better. -- Sam Edge -- 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/