Mail Archives: cygwin/2008/08/18/08:36:31
On Aug 18 08:10, Charles Wilson wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >
> > If this is really a cygcheck bug, we should fix the bug, rather than to
> > workaround it here. Consider that Cygwin 1.7 hasn't been released yet.
>
> Well, yeah, but I wanted the script to work /now/, not whenever we can
> track down and fix the bug. Of course, nobody else is seeing this bug
> anyway...
I *think* I saw this problem as well and I will try to find the reason
if I can reproduce it again.
> > Isn't that workaround for textmode a bit complicated? Wouldn't it be
> > sufficient to replace
> >
> > mount -t -f ...
> >
> > with
> >
> > mount -o text -f ...
> >
> > for 1.5 as well as for 1.7?
>
> Oh. I thought text mode was dead, gone, and buried in 1.7. Sure, that's
> a lot simpler. Second question: has mount /always/ supported '-o text'
> as an alternative to '-t', or has that formulation been added only
> recently? (I seem to recall some work on the 1.7 trunk to 'make mount's
> options more like *nix).
"-o text" exists since 2003.
Corinna
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