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Date: | Thu, 28 Jun 2001 22:27:06 -0400 |
From: | Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com> |
To: | cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com |
Subject: | Re: mount functionality |
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In-Reply-To: | <011301c0ffd6$c1fde4e0$806410ac@local>; from robert.collins@itdomain.com.au on Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 11:32:19PM +1000 |
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 11:32:19PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote: >I notice that in cygwin there's no FS type for the mount call. This is a >problem :[. > >As I don't know how the mount fs type is set in linux, I'm not going to >suggest how we should do it, but what I need for UMSDOS (unless you want it >either globally on or off) is to be able to get the correct fhandler_* from >a given file path. There's no generic mount based capability in cygwin today >(and that will be needed if we ever want a mountable proc file system :]). >(the logic is straight forward: find the mount point a file belongs to and >lookup the device number from the mount point). > >Any objections to mount(win32, posix, flags) becoming mount(win32, posix, >type, flags) ? If we are going to change this, it should emulate linux. Changing it will break backwards compatibility unless we do something like keep the existing "mount" call, name this "mount1", and #define mount mount1 in some appropriate header file. Otherwise, I have no objections. cgf
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