On Jun 27 11:55, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 6/27/2013 4:33 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Jun 26 15:04, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 05:30:51PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >>>On Jun 26 08:31, Peter Allen wrote: > >>>>I've searched the archives and the net and haven't found any > >>>>information about using ioctl() to send commands to a SCSI disk. > >>>> > >>>>I'm porting an application that needs structures defined in sg.h, > >>>>(sg_io_hdr_t) but can't find that header in any cygwin package. > >>>> > >>>>Is there support for this in cygwin? > >>> > >>>No, sorry, there isn't. While Windows offers SCSI passthrough > >>>capability using some DeviceIoControl control code, we don't support the > >>>/dev/sg* devices and the translation from sg to underlying Windows > >>>device. > >>> > >>>I played with the SCSI passthrough stuff a couple years ago. I'd say, > >>>the real problem is not to support passthrough, but the device > >>>translation. There's pretty certainly a way to offer that, but off the > >>>top of my head I don't know how to. > >>> > >>>Adding a Cygwin fhandler for sg devices and SCSI passthrough would > >>>probably be a nice side project for somebody who's interested in this > >>>stuff. It wouldn't really collide with anything which is already > >>>implemented. > >> > >>So when, exactly, do you expect to have this implemented then? Next > >>Thursday? > > > >Let's say, it will be *a* Thursday, just don't expect me to say the > >exact year... > > This isn't another issue involving kittens, is it?
You know how kittens have no sense of time. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
