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On Aug 18 08:10, Charles Wilson wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > 
> > If this is really a cygcheck bug, we should fix the bug, rather than to
> > workaround it here.  Consider that Cygwin 1.7 hasn't been released yet.
> 
> Well, yeah, but I wanted the script to work /now/, not whenever we can
> track down and fix the bug.  Of course, nobody else is seeing this bug
> anyway...

I *think* I saw this problem as well and I will try to find the reason
if I can reproduce it again.

> > Isn't that workaround for textmode a bit complicated?  Wouldn't it be
> > sufficient to replace
> > 
> >   mount -t -f ...
> > 
> > with
> > 
> >   mount -o text -f ...
> > 
> > for 1.5 as well as for 1.7?
> 
> Oh. I thought text mode was dead, gone, and buried in 1.7.  Sure, that's
> a lot simpler.  Second question: has mount /always/ supported '-o text'
> as an alternative to '-t', or has that formulation been added only
> recently? (I seem to recall some work on the 1.7 trunk to 'make mount's
> options more like *nix).

"-o text" exists since 2003.


Corinna

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