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Re: open() BSD call fails on Mac OS Tiger??

Hi
How can I give the permissions to raw read the hard disk. I login the system as system administrator.

What should I have to do?

Thanks and Regards


From: Finlay Dobbie <email@hidden>
To: darpan kamboj <email@hidden>
CC: email@hidden
Subject: Re: open() BSD call fails on Mac OS Tiger??
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 13:46:15 +0100

On 18/10/05, darpan kamboj <email@hidden> wrote:
> I had developed an application on Mac Os 10.3.3.
> I am using fileDescriptor = open ( "/dev/rdisk0", O_RDONLY ); BSD Calls to
> open the hard disk for raw reading and now I am testing same application on
> Mac OS Tiger then I am unable to open the hard disk.
> What should I have to do to solve this problem.

Check errno to see what the error is. It's probably that you don't
have the permission to do that.

-- Finlay

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