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How do I open an NT device driver?
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: How do I open an NT device driver?
- From: Peter Craft <craft at alacritech dot com>
- Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1997 16:03:44 -0700
- Reply-To: craft at alacritech dot com
I'm trying to issue an open to a simple NT device driver using
the cygwin developement environment and I can't figure
out how to do it..
For example, the NT DDK includes source for a "packet driver"
which allows a user to connect to a NT protocol driver directly
from user space. The included application does this by
issueing a call to CreateFile with the unicode device name
"\\.\Packet_Packet_<adaptername>". Is it possible to perform this
same function using the GNU library? If so, I presume I would
perform an "open" instead of the "CreateFile"? If so, what device
name do I use? I've tried open("\\\\.\\Packet_Packet_<adaptername>"..
but that didn't work.
Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I'm a bit stumped here.
Thanks very much,
Pete
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