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Re: Portable Cygwin on a CD
Greetings again.
Ronald Landheer-Cieslak <ronald@landheer.com> wrote in
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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
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