Win32 files and cygwin files

Christopher G. Faylor cgf@cygnus.com
Tue Nov 24 05:43:00 GMT 1998


In article <199811231555.KAA14580.cygnus.gnu-win32@clay.sii-nh.com>,
David R. Dick <drd@sii-nh.com> wrote:
>Because file locking seems to be unavailable in CygWin,
>I probably need to use Win32 LockFile().
>
>I know that I can link with Win32 libaries to use some
>Windows functionality.
>
>Is there a way I can use LockFile() on files I have opened
>with normal UNIX fopen() calls?  or do I need to go all the
>way in using Win32 file calls?

HANDLE h = get_osfhandle (fd) returns the Windows handle associated with
the cygwin fd.

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