Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: RE: cvs via Cygwin (W98) to FAT to Linux - permissions MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 11:26:23 +1000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.4417.0 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: cvs via Cygwin (W98) to FAT to Linux - permissions Thread-Index: AcD/a43pptMg6n6tSGq5rzzZIQiLZAABGaGw From: "Robert Collins" To: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id VAA06957 > -----Original Message----- > From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf@redhat.com] > Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 10:53 AM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: cvs via Cygwin (W98) to FAT to Linux - permissions > > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 04:00:12PM -0700, Steve Jorgensen wrote: > >I have a system with a wireless NIC that has not Linux > support, so I want > >to use cvs from Cygwin on Windows 98 to get files to the FAT > volume, then > >reboot to Linux and copy the files. I only need to deal > with check-out, > >not check-in It would be nice if there were some way to > keep track of the > >file permissions in this process. Of course, UMSDOS support > under Cygwin > >would take care of everything in both directions, but I'm > thinking that's a > >very big hammer for a very small problem, and I doubt anyone > is chomping at > >the bit to implement UMSDOS under Cygwin. > > I actually think that UMSDOS support for cygwin would be a > pretty nifty thing > to implement. I would love to see someone implement this. > > cgf > Implementing UMSDOS could be done two ways (there may be others) 1) cygwin directly translating the UMSDOS information and making it available to cygwin programs. 2) a IFS driver that can translate UMSDOS into the win32 namespace. Now 1) shouldn't be too hard. But 2) while a lot harder, would have significant benefits... NFS drivers etc would be technically similar to write :} However I don't have AU$6000.00 hanging around to buy the MS DDK for a hobby. And there is no full opensource DDK for win32 at the moment. A project to develop such a thing could probably piggy back on ReactOS, which is coming along at a great rate of knots (they have TCP/IP now). Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/