[HEADSUP] Let's start a Cygwin 1.7 release area

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Apr  3 20:21, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Apr  3 13:56, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> > On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > I think what we should do is this.  The code creating the mount points
> > > automatically generates the root directory mount entry from the DLL path:
> > >
> > >   path = GetModuleFileName (cygwin1.dll);
> > >   path = snip_away trailing_bin_cygwin1.dll (path);
> > >   mount_table->add_item (path, "/", MOUNT_SYSTEM | MOUNT_BINARY, false);
> > >
> > > Then, when reading the fstab file, it might contain any standard entry
> > > for the root dir, just like every other entry:
> > >
> > >   C:\my\alterante\cygwin-root / ntfs text 0 0
> > >
> > > How does that sound?
> > 
> > Right.  Since the users can shoot themselves in the foot anyway by
> > overriding /bin and /etc, unless we want to litter the code with special
> > handling of directories, might as well let them do it at their leisure...
> > :-)
> 
> For testing I applied a patch which creates a default root dir.

Oh, I just figured that I forgot to mention the second part of the
patch (even in the ChangeLog):

The FS type field is used now to recognize the cygdrive prefix.  So,
my current local /etc/fstab file looks like this:

  $ cat /etc/fstab
  # C:\cygwin / ntfs binary 0 0
  C:\cygwin\bin /usr/bin ntfs binary 0 0
  C:\cygwin\lib /usr/lib ntfs binary 0 0
  C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts ntfs binary 0 0
  C:\cygwin\home\corinna\textmode-dir /home/corinna/textmode-dir ntfs text 0 0
  c:\cygwin\home\corinna\managed /home/corinna/managed ntfs binary,managed 0 0
  \\fs01\archiv /home/archiv smbfs binary 0 0
  none /mnt cygdrive binary 0 0

Note especially the first entry for the root dir, which is commented out,
and the last entry for the cygdrive prefix.


Corinna

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