Cygwin 1.5.18 and //./PhysicalDrive??

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Nov  4 11:06, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> It just occured to me that you still can use the same pathname when
> using backslashes instead of forward slashes.
> 
>   dd if=\\\\.\\physicaldrive0 count=1 | od -x
> 
> works since paths with a backslash are treated as Win32 paths and are
> not subject to the POSIX normalization and path conversion.
> 
> However, not that Win32 paths like the above are not treated as devices,
           ^^^
           note

> but as plain files.  For instance, you'll fail to use device specific
> ioctls.


Corinna

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