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From: Japheth <mail@japheth.de>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] r6677 broke access to physical FDD on Win32
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:20:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49C897E4.6050009@japheth.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <68676e00903230531p7c970a8ehfe4205600ddae382@mail.gmail.com>


> This look dangerous (as in "the guest might corrupt the fs"), what it
> the rationale behind this change?

there's a sentence in MSDN about the Win32 CreateFile() API for "disk devices":

------------------------------------------------------------------------
When opening a floppy disk or a partition on a hard disk, you must set the 
FILE_SHARE_WRITE flag in the dwShareMode parameter.
------------------------------------------------------------------------

  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-24  8:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-18 21:53 [Qemu-devel] r6677 broke access to physical FDD on Win32 Robert Riebisch
2009-03-20 22:01 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-03-20 22:23   ` Robert Riebisch
2009-03-20 23:02     ` Anthony Liguori
2009-03-20 23:20       ` Luca Tettamanti
2009-03-21  1:56         ` Anthony Liguori
2009-03-22 20:49           ` Robert Riebisch
2009-03-23  2:20             ` Anthony Liguori
2009-03-23 12:31             ` Luca Tettamanti
2009-03-24  8:20               ` Japheth [this message]
2009-03-30 19:59                 ` Robert Riebisch
2009-03-21 22:07   ` Luca Tettamanti
2009-04-07  1:46     ` Anthony Liguori
2009-04-07 11:45       ` Luca Tettamanti

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