Re: Locking drives for exclusive access under Win32

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From: Bob Gonder
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 18:27

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Andrue Cope <not.a.valid@email.address.sorry> wrote:

>We need to be able to lock a physical drive while we write an image 
>to it.

Why?  Are you using direct disk i/o?

> I can't find anything in the help so far other than for Win9x 
>and was wondering if anyone here knew how to lock a physical drive 
>under Win32.

I would think if you can use direct disk i/o, you could also lock it.
IOW can you do direct i/o in Win32?

If this isn't a performance thingy, there are other ways to block
access to the partial file until the write is completed.

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