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Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 16:18:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jason Pyeron <jpyeron AT pdinc DOT us>
To: "cygwin AT cygwin DOT com" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Bug: Setup tool doesn't respect managed mountpoints/filesystems
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could you forward the link for th IFS SDK?

I would like to have the license reviewed, etc.

On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, Brian Dessent wrote:

> Mark Paulus wrote:
>
>> Has anyone explored the option of an IFS that would implement the cygwin
>> managed filesystem semantics, but it would be transparent to all
>> cygwin apps.  From the brief investigation I have done, it appears there would
>> need to be 2 flavors, 9x/ME & NT/2K/XP, but that would relieve a big burden
>> from the cygwin1.dll, I would estimate.
>
> I don't know much about writing kernel mode code.  MS charges $109 for
> the IFS SDK, so unless somebody's company sponsored it most people would
> not have the tools or documentation.  I don't know if w32api has
> reimplemented the required headers and libs to be able to compile such a
> thing with gcc, and I don't think cygwin would want to accept binaries
> that require MS tools to build.
>
> Brian
>
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