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RE: XFree and File Systems
- From: Vince Hoffman <Vince dot Hoffman at uk dot circle dot com>
- To: "'cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 10:08:01 -0000
- Subject: RE: XFree and File Systems
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
actualy there is a working NFS server but its still in testing. (search the
cygwin-apps mailing list for details) no NFS client i know of though.
the URL was http://www.oneparticularharbor.net/cygwin/
only tried it for an afternoon though.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexander Gottwald
> [mailto:Alexander.Gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de]
> Sent: 31 December 2002 01:23
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: XFree and File Systems
>
>
> Sylvain Petreolle wrote:
>
> > Hasn't got cygwin any nfs port ?
>
> No. This does not make sense since the NFS driver must be
> attached to the
> windows VFS. It would be possible to write a fhandler for
> cygwin which
> does all the nfs stuff but then only cygwin programs could access the
> nfs files. It's the same as the /proc filesystem for cygwin.
>
> NP: VNV Nation - Procession
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