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Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 19:00:39 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: mount -X and FAQ [Attn: FAQ Maintainer, tcl maintainer]
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On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 03:49:15PM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
>On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 02:21:51PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 10:59:55AM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
>> >On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 01:22:10PM -0700, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
>> >>On 9/16/05, Eric Blake wrote:
>> >>>According to Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) on 9/15/2005 10:48 AM:
>> >>>>The FAQ (http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq_3.html) mentions using this
>> >>>>idiom for strace and cygcheck, but not for Tcl/Tk.  Perhaps these
>> >>>>should be noted as well?
>> >>>
>> >>>Now that strace and cygcheck work in without having to explicitly mount
>> >>>them non-cygexec, the FAQ needs updating anyways.
>> >>
>> >>OK.  Maybe I'll take a stab at creating a script to find exe's in /bin/
>> >>not linked to cygwin1.dll and put that in the FAQ instead.
>> >
>> >There's a hardcoded limit to number of mount points, isn't there?
>> >Perhaps you should mention that in the FAQ too.
>> 
>> I think this should be a change for the standard documentation now the
>> FAQ, primarily because this is the first time I can think of that this
>> question/observation has been made.
>
>s/now/not/ ??

Yes.

>Do you mean the whole idea of -X-mounting /bin?  Or the limit on mount
>points?  If just the latter, the FAQ about the former should also
>mention the limit if it gives a recipe that potentially could create
>too many.

I was responding to your message about the hardcoded limit in the number
of mount points.

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