Re: [Qemu-devel] r6677 broke access to physical FDD on Win32

[Japheth]

> This look dangerous (as in "the guest might corrupt the fs"), what it
> the rationale behind this change?

there's a sentence in MSDN about the Win32 CreateFile() API for "disk devices":

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When opening a floppy disk or a partition on a hard disk, you must set the 
FILE_SHARE_WRITE flag in the dwShareMode parameter.
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