On Mar 31 17:36, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > Mike, > > Please make sure your mailer respects the Reply-To: header. Thanks. > > Frankly, I don't see any reason why open() *wouldn't* succeed on > \\.\PhysicalDrive0... All it'll do is recognize a Win32 pathname (because > of the '\'), and pass it along to Windows. OTOH, Cygwin will not see this > name as special -- from Cygwin's point of view it's just another file. So > any operations invoked on it (including "open") will be regular Windows > file calls, not special ones (e.g., NtOpenFile with the right attributes, > as done in fhandler_dev_raw::open). This might be the reason for your > initial problem. > Igor
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