Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 01:51:32 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: loopback devise (was Re: mknod implementation? ... ) Message-ID: <20030225065132.GA2819@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <5.2.0.9.2.20030224134817.0299ae90@pop3.cris.com> <5.2.0.9.2.20030224130818.01dae398@pop3.cris.com> <5.2.0.9.2.20030224134817.0299ae90@pop3.cris.com> <3.0.5.32.20030225004921.00f3b760@mail.earthlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20030225004921.00f3b760@mail.earthlink.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 12:49:21AM -0600, Robert Citek wrote: > >At 08:37 PM 2/24/2003 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 01:52:15PM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: >>>Does Cygwin have a loopback block device? >> >>No. >> >>As Randall correctly points out, the existence of the mknod command has >>no bearing on the existence of functionality like a loopback device. > >Are there plans to include the functionality of a loopback device in future >releases of Cygwin? No, there are no such plans? >If so, what can I do to help that process along? Keep in mind I am not >a systems programer. Sounds like if you became a systems programmer that would help things along. cgf -- 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/