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Re: cygwin copy
- From: Michael A Chase <mchase at ix dot netcom dot com>
- To: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 08:08:45 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: cygwin copy
- References: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0210151032460.18519-100000@slinky.cs.nyu.edu>
- Reply-to: Michael A Chase <mchase at ix dot netcom dot com>
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 10:38:15 -0400 (EDT) Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Michael A Chase wrote:
>
>> You could also create restore_mounts.bat the same way and run it in a MSDOS
> > window. The mount command does not depend on cygwin1.dll and the `mount
> > -m` output should work under MSDOS 'shells' as well as under Cygwin shells.
>
> Yep, thanks, I forgot about the existence of bat files since starting on
> cygwin... :-D
Good for you. I still use them some when I'm using native apps.
> As for the bit about mount not depending on cygwin1.dll, it would be
> interesting if this were the case... And which DLL does it get
> getmntent() from?
I dug into the mount source code over a year ago and thought it linked all
the mount table routines statically, but I apparently was mistaken.
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