Mailing-List: contact cygwin-developers-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-developers-owner AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com X-WM-Posted-At: avacado.atomice.net; Tue, 28 May 02 21:19:48 +0100 Message-ID: <000901c20685$03dd5890$0100a8c0@advent02> From: "Chris January" To: References: <001701c201aa$9cca0ab0$0100a8c0 AT advent02> <20020523232638 DOT GA31888 AT redhat DOT com> <00ff01c202b8$ad484d70$0100a8c0 AT advent02> Subject: Re: /dev patch Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 21:19:48 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 > > Could you subscribe to cygwin-developers so that we could discuss this > > patch? I think we need to lay more groundwork before we do something > > like this and cygwin-patches is not the place for discussing this. > > > > cgf > I have no qualms about whether this patch is committed or not, as it was > simply an exercise prompted by a posting on the cygwin mailing list. However > I do feel that taking the /proc prefix from the mount table is a better > solution than hard-coding it. If this patch is not going to be committed in > time for 1.3.11, I will make sure that this part of the patch is > incorporated in my second /proc patch. > As for any groundwork you wish to lay, I am always open to discussion. Chris, can you tell me what's going to happen to this patch so I know whether to make the next /proc patch incremental to this one or not. Thanks Chris