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Date:	Tue, 25 Feb 2003 02:02:43 -0500
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: loopback devise (was Re: mknod implementation? ... )
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On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 01:51:32AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 12:49:21AM -0600, Robert Citek wrote:
>>
>>At 08:37 PM 2/24/2003 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 01:52:15PM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
>>>>Does Cygwin have a loopback block device?
>>>
>>>No.
>>>
>>>As Randall correctly points out, the existence of the mknod command has
>>>no bearing on the existence of functionality like a loopback device.
>>
>>Are there plans to include the functionality of a loopback device in future
>>releases of Cygwin?
>
>No, there are no such plans?

Sorry.  Didn't mean to make that a question.  It's late.

There are no such plans <full stop>

cgf

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