Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , 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: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 19:00:39 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: mount -X and FAQ [Attn: FAQ Maintainer, tcl maintainer] Message-ID: <20050918230039.GC13759@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <94BF3137C62D3E4CAED7E97F876585F0D03014 AT pauex2ku08 DOT agere DOT com> <432AB94A DOT 8050405 AT byu DOT net> <20050918175955 DOT GA3084 AT efn DOT org> <20050918182151 DOT GF20860 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <20050918224915 DOT GC2572 AT efn DOT org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050918224915.GC2572@efn.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 03:49:15PM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: >On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 02:21:51PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 10:59:55AM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: >> >On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 01:22:10PM -0700, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: >> >>On 9/16/05, Eric Blake wrote: >> >>>According to Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) on 9/15/2005 10:48 AM: >> >>>>The FAQ (http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq_3.html) mentions using this >> >>>>idiom for strace and cygcheck, but not for Tcl/Tk. Perhaps these >> >>>>should be noted as well? >> >>> >> >>>Now that strace and cygcheck work in without having to explicitly mount >> >>>them non-cygexec, the FAQ needs updating anyways. >> >> >> >>OK. Maybe I'll take a stab at creating a script to find exe's in /bin/ >> >>not linked to cygwin1.dll and put that in the FAQ instead. >> > >> >There's a hardcoded limit to number of mount points, isn't there? >> >Perhaps you should mention that in the FAQ too. >> >> I think this should be a change for the standard documentation now the >> FAQ, primarily because this is the first time I can think of that this >> question/observation has been made. > >s/now/not/ ?? Yes. >Do you mean the whole idea of -X-mounting /bin? Or the limit on mount >points? If just the latter, the FAQ about the former should also >mention the limit if it gives a recipe that potentially could create >too many. I was responding to your message about the hardcoded limit in the number of mount points. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/