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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [1.7] /proc/mounts, /etc/mtab
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On Jan  7 15:29, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jan  4 19:46, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
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> > It would be a helpful enhancement to have a /proc/mounts interface to
> > the mountpoint data, with /etc/mtab perhaps being a symlink thereto.  Is
> > this something that could be easily added, or is this a case of PTC?
> 
> Nice idea.  I would like to reduce further extensions to Cygwin until we
> eventually released the first 1.7 officially.  But a P would certainly
> be CT ;)

I just implemented /proc/$PID/mounts as well as the /proc/mounts
symlink to /proc/self/mounts as on Linux.  We just have to add
`ln -s /proc/mounts /etc/mtab' to some base script.


HTH,
Corinna

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