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On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 01:30:37PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote:
>Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>>Or you could look at how setup.exe/cygcheck does it and help extract
>>the mount code into a library that could be linked into other apps.
>
>FWIW, this idea of creating a mingw "libcygpath" really appeals to me
>and it's been an idea I've been meaning to look at for a while.  It
>would be a library that knows how to read the mount table, and do basic
>path conversions, without depending on cygwin1.dll.  Then cygpath and
>setup.exe could both statically link to this library, and it would be
>available to other users as well.

FWIW, Robert Collins and I talked about doing this years ago but it just
suffered due to SHTDI.  I think that path.cc in the utils directory
should be a pretty good start towards a library for reading the mount
table.  It is what is used by strace.cc and cygcheck.cc.

cgf

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