CreateFile() and fopen issues on vista

[Eric Blake]

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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.

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Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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