Postinstall for mintty fails when installing "just for me"

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Aug 18 13:35, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Aug 18 12:24, Andy Koppe wrote:
> > On 18 August 2010 09:43, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > Andy, to workaround this, you *could* create a user mount first which
> > > has no "noacl", then use the user mount to check permissions, and
> > > eventually umount again. Â Like this:
> > >
> > > Â PROGS=/tmp/.mintty-postinstall-$$
> > > Â mount -f "`cygpath -APm`" $PROGS
> > > Â if [ -w "$PROGS" ]; then
> > > Â  Â [...]
> > > Â else
> > > Â  Â [...]
> > > Â fi
> > > Â umount $PROGS
> > 
> > Hmm, I'm a bit afraid that might find creative new ways of going wrong. ;)
> 
> The only way that could go wrong is, if the user already has 30 mount
> points, since that's the current maximum nuber of allowed mounts.

Btw., see /bin/ssh-host-config, line 93 :)


Corinna

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