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Re: Changed getmntent behavior

On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 10:15:06PM -0500, DJ Delorie wrote:
>
>> I'd like comments on this.  Does it make mount too wordy?  Personally
>> I think it is pretty useful but I guess I need feedback.
>
>It should skip drives whose roots are already mounted somewhere.

Good idea.  I've implemented this.

>It should skip floppies and cd-roms, unless we can detect when there's
>measurable media in them.

I don't think it is possible to detect if a drive has medium without pausing.
Do you know of an Windows function which checks for this?

cgf
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