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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
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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.

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