Re: Not directly Cygwin: Windows special filenames

[Igor Peshansky <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>]

On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Shaddy Baddah wrote:

> Hi again,
>
> On 7/31/2006 2:11 PM, Shaddy Baddah wrote:
> > Indeed cygpath -m /dev/sda or /dev/sda1 return the equivalents from this
> > page. Is this misleading, seeing as they are not really valid DOS names?
>
> Sorry, that was a little presumptions of me. Are paths such as
> \device\harddisk0\partition0. When I try to open a file to this path, it is
> not recognised as valid.
>
> Does it live in the same namespace, so to speak, as C:, \\suchandsuchserver,
> etc?

I would imagine you'd need to use '\\.\device\harddisk0\partition0', but
MSDN is not particularly forthcoming on this issue...

> That's where I am coming from in terms of an expectation of what cygwin
> -w would return.

I take it you mean "cygpath -w"...  Yes, I suppose one would expect to be
able to use the exact output of "cygpath -w" to open the equivalent
Windows file/device...  PTC, of course.
	Igor
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