[python-win32] Handle to a Driver

[Tim Roberts]

On Sun, 03 Apr 2005 13:32:01 +0200, Chi Tai <me at chi-tai.info> wrote:

>i've found the faulty.
>For those interested in: win32file.DeviceIoControl transfers a string or
>character array, thus a numerical value like a handle is also transfered
>as a character array and the cast operation within the driver does not
>result in a valid handle.
>  
>

Right.  In this case, the ioctl wants a 4-byte integer value.  
win32event.CreateEvent returns a PyHANDLE object.  The PyHANDLE object 
includes a property called "handle", menmonically enough, that returns 
the 4-byte integer value.

Thus, this should do what you want:

   ret = DeviceIoControl( hDevice, IOCTL_SET_READ_EVENT, 
ReadEvent.handle, 0, None )

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