On Aug 27 19:04, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Aug 27 16:28, Achim Gratz wrote:
> > Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes:
> > > > -v, please.  What means "obviously" here?  Did you ask Netapp?
> > 
> > No, I've tried all combinations of parameters to the open calls to
> > absolutely no avail.  I then started to look at what the VolumeInformation
> > call is supposed to be doing and decided that this might have a better
> > chance of producing a workaround.
> > 
> > > > The FileFsFullSizeInformation class is *old*, it has been introduced
> > > > with Windows 2000.  Did you test all combinations I asked you for?  Can
> > > > you provide detailed results?  It might help to find a working combination.
> > 
> > All combinations you listed produced absolutely the same behaviour than
> > before: the open suceeds and the VolumeInfo call fails.  I've tried a few
> > other combinations that are forbidden according to MSDN and promptly had the
> > open call fail, so I think I did this correctly...
> > 
> > While searching the net I've found some notes saying that the only classes
> > confirmed working everywhere didn't include FileFsFullSizeInformation.  True
> > or not, that's what pushed me to rip it out.
> > 
> > http://sourceforge.net/p/openxdk/patches/_discuss/thread/4b412944/4ba5/attachment/undocumented.txt

Btw., the document is from 2003.  11 years is a long time.


Corinna

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