Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 16:58:05 -0500 Message-Id: <199902192158.QAA10344@envy.delorie.com> From: DJ Delorie To: alexl AT i-france DOT com CC: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com In-reply-to: <36CDDCF1.14D154DA@i-france.com> (message from Alex on Fri, 19 Feb 1999 22:51:45 +0100) Subject: Re: mount References: <36CDDCF1 DOT 14D154DA AT i-france DOT com> > is it possible to mount ISO9660 image with cygwin mount provides > with the b20.1 ? The cygwin mount command does nothing more than map existing windows paths (like c:\foo) to posix-like paths (like /foo). It simulates a few raw devices, like /dev/null and /dev/fd0. It does not simulate file systems other than the ones that windows already supports. So, the answer is "yes" if and only if windows can do it, and I don't think windows can treat a file like a device (like Linux can). One novel project for some enterprising programmer would be to add the equivalent of DJGPP's "File System Extensions", which could be used to do exactly that (*if* someone wrote the module to handle it). You'd do something like "mount -t iso9660 blah.cd /cdrom" and cygwin would load the fs-iso9660.dll driver to deal with it. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com