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Re: Cygwin 1.5.18 and //./PhysicalDrive??
On Nov 3 16:56, Loh, Joe wrote:
> Folks,
> Since updating the Cygwin 1.5.18, we started seeing problem similar to
> the what "dd" is experiencing. The previous Cygwin DLL we used was
> Cygwin 1.5.16, at that works flawlessly. Is anyone out there
> experiencing the same issue?
>
> I have reverted back to the Cygwin 1.5.16 and everything start working
> normally again. Due to legacy support requirement we are still using
> the //./PhysicalDrive?? to accessing raw device in Cygwin.
>
> I am also attaching the "strace" output at the end of this mail for the
> "dd" that failed. Please advise what additional information is needed.
>
> See the example and result below:
>
> $ dd if=//./physicaldrive0 count=1 | od -x
> dd: opening `//./physicaldrive0': No such host or network path
> 0000000
Sorry, but using //./foo was deprecated already for a long time, see
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#id4676548
Corinna
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