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Re: volinfo (was: MVFS results)
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:51:29PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Jul 15 20:23, Eric Blake wrote:
>> Charles Wilson <cygwin <at> cwilson.fastmail.fm> writes:
>>
>> >
>> > Eric Blake wrote:
>> > > Also, volinfo is such a helpful debug utility; should we go ahead and add
>> it to
>> > > the utils directory, and compile it alongside other tools like cygcheck as
>> part
>> > > of the base package?
>> >
>> > It's already in the csih package, under /usr/lib/csih/ but if you want
>> > to "promote" it to src/winsup/ that's fine. When/if that happens, we'll
>> > need to coordinate the release of cygwin-1.7.x-y and the new csih.
>>
>> Oh - that's why I didn't find it - csih renamed it to getVolInfo, and it is not
>> part of the default PATH.
>>
>> And if we DO want to promote it,
>
>Nah. It's ok as a herlper tool, but it's not worth to be put into
>winsup/utils. Maybe as part of cygcheck, but even if so, not now.
Yeah, I was going to say that it should go into cygcheck myself.
Hmm. I wonder if cygcheck should be a standalone utility so that we can
update it without needing to update the DLL.
Hmm. Deja vu.
cgf
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