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Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 12:01:18 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Reini Urban <rurban AT x-ray DOT at>
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Subject: Re: getmntent extended
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On Sun, 31 Oct 2004, Reini Urban wrote:

> Is it possible to let getmntent() i.e. fillout_mntent()
> return something more appropriate?
> or would this break existing apps?
>
> getmntent() currently returns either "system" or "user" (user or system
> mounts), which are kinda strange fstype names.
>
> I expected them to return something like "msdos", "pc", "fat", "vfat" or
> "ntfs". Those are currently supported by current findutils on mounted dos
> drives in unix systems.
> Maybe also an indiciator for subst'ed drives: "subst" and remote shares, but
> this has no equivalent at unix.
>
> Apps using this are to my knowledge only
> df -t <type>, and find -fstype <type>
> I could change that in coreutils and findutils, as findutils also adds some
> logic for certain esoteric platforms, but I thought asking for it upstream
> costs nothing.
> [snip]

Yes, it's possible: <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-09/msg01035.html>.
But, <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#SHTDI>...
	Igor
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