Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com> List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/> List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs> Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 08:08:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael A Chase <mchase AT ix DOT netcom DOT com> Subject: Re: cygwin copy To: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <Mahogany-0.64.2-8733-20021015-080845.00@ix.netcom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: INLINE references: <Pine DOT GSO DOT 4 DOT 44 DOT 0210151032460 DOT 18519-100000 AT slinky DOT cs DOT nyu DOT edu> in-reply-to: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0210151032460.18519-100000@slinky.cs.nyu.edu> Reply-To: Michael A Chase <mchase AT ix DOT netcom DOT com> On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 10:38:15 -0400 (EDT) Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu> wrote: > On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Michael A Chase wrote: > >> You could also create restore_mounts.bat the same way and run it in a MSDOS > > window. The mount command does not depend on cygwin1.dll and the `mount > > -m` output should work under MSDOS 'shells' as well as under Cygwin shells. > > Yep, thanks, I forgot about the existence of bat files since starting on > cygwin... :-D Good for you. I still use them some when I'm using native apps. > As for the bit about mount not depending on cygwin1.dll, it would be > interesting if this were the case... And which DLL does it get > getmntent() from? I dug into the mount source code over a year ago and thought it linked all the mount table routines statically, but I apparently was mistaken. -- Mac :}) ** I normally forward private questions to the appropriate mail list. ** Ask Smarter: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Give a hobbit a fish and he eats fish for a day. Give a hobbit a ring and he eats fish for an age. -- 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/