On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 03:53:40PM -0400, David Fritz wrote: >I don't how much you want to rely on undocumented features, but ntdll.dll >exports a function called RtlIsDosDeviceName_U(). The WINE implementation >has the following to say about it: > > >/*********************************************************************** > * RtlIsDosDeviceName_U (NTDLL.@) > * > * Check if the given DOS path contains a DOS device name. > * > * Returns the length of the device name in the low word and its > * position in the high word (both in bytes, not WCHARs), or 0 if no > * device name is found. > */ >ULONG WINAPI RtlIsDosDeviceName_U( PCWSTR dos_name )
THANK YOU! This is what I was vaguely remembering. >Also, from the patch: > >/* COM and LPT must be followed by a single digit */ > >The code in src/winsup/cygwin/devices.cc would seem to indicate that >the number is not limited to a single digit. I believe that whenever I try to limit COM to single digits someone complains about their special board with 527 com ports or something. cgf