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yes sorry. youre right. i meant to say DeviceIoControl as I dont have vista.

is it dangerous to use junctions as they will overwrite a hard drives contents if done wrong?

Hopefully Joy2DWorld will respond with whatever he did to get it working.

sorry, wasn't following the thread...

I just set multiple copies of everything WF0, WF1, CRD0, CRD1,PFI1, etc... including the callback.

and set each forked process to low priority.

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Joyce Jamce

If you still have it, would you be able to post the code? I tried once and it didnt work.

was just playing with it on a scratchpad, experimenting with what can do with 'Fork'.

much more interesting what is actually possible with the 'FORK' concept. Strangely, in playing with it, sometimes couldn't get the global vars to be recognized inside the callback function, and most any AHK command seem to execute 1 and terminate the thread....

in the end, found it more stable/reliable just to set up a 'mirror' function,

ie. call independant ahk script with params and share results via global objects sent via simple messages (you can just use common gui edit control).

but... unsatisfied goals can be frustrating... so...


if you've played with my suggestion & can't get it to work, post your code and I will look & see where your issue is.....

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Joyce Jamce

It's a bit awkward to tell in words. I suppose you'll face the trouble yourself once or twice in the course of using it. I don't think there will be a problem with creating and using it. The problem is almost always when deleting it, especially if you turned off the recycle bin, like me. You have to immediately recover the data using a decent recovery tool.

In spite of the risk, however, it's truly a super-feature. I can't live without it. My system is heavily relying on mount points and junction points.

re: junctions...


1. as far as I can tell... if you delete from explorer a symbolic directory, it does not 'remove' the junction, it removes the directory structure.

2. the best i've been able to do is create 'ghost' directories or file containers. (this I use to keep file in my 'scripts' directory AND make it available in LIB directory. ie. file by file basis, and has two 'doors' to same file.

If it is possible to JOIN two directories (like the DOS join), please bring me up to speed-- ie. if dir __ of a single directory can bring up actual listings of two... type thing...

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Does anyone know the best method to mount all the harddrives on the computer to a folder, so that folder can be monitored for all computer activity?

For example, how could thise be used....



that doesnt work, but how could i get it to mount D:\ into C:\mnt ?

Must I use

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa364994(VS.85).aspx

as the last parameter?

@SKAN
did you ever post the Asynchronous version that you mentioned on page 1 of this forum?? I am interested but I can't find it on the boards

Unluckily I did not . I have to search my backups and if not I will try to rewrite it again. But I can tell you it is slightly inferior to Synchronous mode.

inferior? how so? i would love asynchronous to be released! its in my top 5 things ive been waiting for someone to write!

Yeah, I just need to monitor a network folder for changes... it gets 7-15 folders added to it per day... From your earlier descriptions async seemed best.

I will explain that when I post, right now I'm searching it.

hrm... on a related thought, (should this be a new thread) just found this on MSDN:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363798(VS.85).aspx

Anyone know how to call the functions to use this?

That is NTFS specific method.

Please excuse me for the delay friends. I unable to trace the asynchronous version and I have to write it again from scratch.

Meanwhile, I would like to know if anyone is interested in an external Dll solution.

The DLL will be < 37Kb and multithreaded ( means it can be called multiple times for as many folders ).