Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/04/23/21:04:08
You still didn't answer my question. Why can't you just configure each
server with a path at startup instead of using mounts?
saber DOT zrelli AT st DOT com wrote:
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> Goodmorning every body ,
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> the main functionality of the server process is to, run make file
> rules , which will call many cygwin binaries , such as expect , sed ,
> ...
> and all file names in these makefiles are in POSIX . I have to adapt
> my distributed application to work with these make files , so i can't
> change filenames into DOS format.
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> the architecture of the application is as follows :
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> - X drives containing the same directory D with the same files ( Clear
> Case view)
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> - the server program is a perl program called from .bat script.
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> -> we want to perform some actions remotely on the directories D of
> each drive , so we launch the server programs from each drive and
> wait for requests.
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> suppose we have some drive mounted as our root then all server
> processes will taket it as teir root too , because , all cygwin will
> binaries look at mount table ( i suppose ) to perform conversion
> POSIX -> DOS .
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> the mechanism i need is some thing like this :
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> when starting the slave process i mount the drive it is running
> from but the resulting mount table is a private mount table.
> each process will have its own mount table and will perfrom
> conversions correctly.
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> Saber.
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> Subject: Re: a moutn table per cygwin session
> Author: rcampbell at internet/dd.RFC-822=rcampbell AT tropicnetworks\.com
> Date: 4/18/2003 7:05 PM
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> saber DOT zrelli AT st DOT com wrote:
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>> hi there ,
>>
>> I'm using cygwin bash to run many TCP/IP servers on the same host
>> machine , i need each server to work with a separate drive , so each
>> time i start a server the first thing i do is to mount automatically
>> its corresponding drive , but the result is that the latest mounts
>> suppress the previous one , so i have allways the same drive for all
>> my servers.
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>> any help ?
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>> Best Regards.
>>
>> Saber.
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> Why not add a parameter to the server you can tell it what drive to use.
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