Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.33-0.1

[Keith Christian <keith1christian at gmail dot com>]

Here's a function for you Andrey, in appreciation for all the work you
contribute to Cygwin:


type uname_r
uname_r is a function


uname_r ()
{
    uname -r | sed -e 's/[.(/\)]/_/g' | sed -e 's/\(.*\)\(_$\)/\1/'
}


uname_r
1_7_32_0_274_5_3



On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru> wrote:
> Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!
>
>> For your convenience I wrote new documentation.  Since this is a TEST
>> prerelease, the new documentation is not part of the official docs yet.
>> Rather have a look at
>
>>   https://cygwin.com/preliminary-ntsec.html
>
> "via an undocumented APIr " should be "... API, " probably.
>
>> If you read it
>> (which I seriously hope for) and it's all just incomprehensible
>> gobbledygook to you, please say so on the mailing list
>
>>   cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>
>> so we have a chance to improve the documentation.
>
> I'm in the process of reading it. Goes slowly, but that's due to my head
> condition. It really a very good read, thank you.
>
>> - /proc/cygdrive is a new symlink pointing to the current cygdrive prefix.
>>   This can be utilized in scripts to access paths via cygdrive prefix, even
>>   if the cygdrive prefix has been changed by the user.
>
> Hm. The prefix currently set to just "/".
>
> $ ls -l /proc/cygdrive
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 anrdaemon None 0 Oct 24 20:17 /proc/cygdrive -> /proc/cygdrive
>
> $ ls -l /proc/cygdrive/
> ls: cannot access /proc/cygdrive/: Not a directory
>
> Is this... normal?
> Or what this is supposed to be at all? Shouldn't it be a simple text file
> containing current cygdrive prefix?
>
>> - /proc/partitions now prints the windows mount points the device is mounted
>>   on.  This allows to recognize the underlying Windows devices of the Cygwin
>>   raw device names.
>
> $ cat /proc/partitions
> major minor  #blocks  name   win-mounts
>
>     8     0  78150744 sda
>     8     1  78149688 sda1   C:\dev\sdb1\
>     8    16  78150744 sdb
>     8    17    102400 sdb1
>     8    18    131072 sdb2
>     8    19  77916160 sdb3   C:\
>     8    32 488386584 sdc
>     8    33 486615520 sdc1   C:\dev\sdb1\dev\sdc1\ C:\dev\sdb1\d\ C:\dev\sdc1\
>     8    48 312571224 sdd
>     8    49 312568641 sdd1   C:\dev\sdb1\dev\sdd1\ C:\dev\sdd1\
>     8    64         0 sde
>     8    80         0 sdf
>     8    96         0 sdg
>     8   112         0 sdh
>
> I approve of this product and/or service.
> I would use a mountvol data around here somewhere, too. But it's useful as it
> is already.
>
>> - New API: quotactl, designed after the Linux/BSD function, but severly
> severely? I'm no expert, but that's probably the right form.
>
> A slightly unrelated request, but... I just had an issue I could prevent if
> applying brain to hands, but... would it be a feasible request to make the
> output of 'uname -r' suitable for naming a file?
>
>
> --
> WBR,
> Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 24.10.2014, <19:51>
>
> Sorry for my terrible english...
>
>
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