[Win32utils-devel] Calling CreateFile on an instance of File -possible?

[win32utils-devel at rubyforge.org]

Hi,

> Hi Dan,
> 
> First, thanks for all your great work on the win32-* libraries!
> 
>> I don't know how to get a valid HANDLE to a instance of an
>> already opened file.
> 
> I took a look at how to determine the HANDLE that corresponds to a
> given FILE* or a fileno.  Not surprisingly, I couldn't find any way to
> recover that HANDLE.
> 
> 
You can use _get_osfhandle function to get the HANDLE from a fileno.

Refer to http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vclib/html/_crt__get_osfhandle.asp

> Take care,
> 
> Wayne Vucenic
> 

Regards, 

Park Heesob