From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Lm1se-0002E0-Hy for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 24 Mar 2009 04:21:04 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Lm1sZ-0002Bt-Fb for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 24 Mar 2009 04:21:03 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59843 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Lm1sZ-0002Bq-CU for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 24 Mar 2009 04:20:59 -0400 Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:32506) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Lm1sY-0006oP-ST for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 24 Mar 2009 04:20:59 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.188]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Lm1sU-0003Uo-Hz for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 24 Mar 2009 04:20:54 -0400 Message-ID: <49C897E4.6050009@japheth.de> Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:20:52 +0100 From: Japheth MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] r6677 broke access to physical FDD on Win32 References: <49C16D71.7020104@bttr-software.de> <49C41240.8030102@codemonkey.ws> <49C4177B.7080405@bttr-software.de> <49C42080.5080802@codemonkey.ws> <68676e00903201620n1ac29c01g9e3d7172f9bc69a4@mail.gmail.com> <49C4493E.9050701@codemonkey.ws> <49C6A459.3000409@bttr-software.de> <68676e00903230531p7c970a8ehfe4205600ddae382@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <68676e00903230531p7c970a8ehfe4205600ddae382@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org > 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------