MSYS mode (continue)

Alexey Pavlov alexpux@gmail.com
Wed Jul 3 18:25:00 GMT 2013


2013/7/3 Christopher Faylor:
> On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 08:03:25PM +0400, Alexey Pavlov wrote:
>>I want to continue our discussion about integrating MSYS mode into
>>Cygwin sources.
>>Right now we need to determine where you can create hooks for msys
>>plugin I think.
>>MSYS plugin need to has ability to change next logic:
>>
>> - generating osname
>> - reading /etc/fstab
>> - changing environment variables and filtering them, that passed to
>>non-cygwin applications
>> - changing program arguments that passed to non-cygwin applications
>
> That all sounds doable but could you refresh my memory on why you need
> an /etc/fstab hook?  Was it to map /cygdrive/c -> /c or something?
>
I need it to be able read short mount points from fstab: <win32_path>
<posix_path>.
All other options are set by default. With my changes I can have in
/etc/fstab both types of mount points - cygwin-like and msys-like.

> If so, as long as you're going to have an fstab why not just do that
> in the fstab itself?
I already add line to stab that drop cygdrive prefix.

>
> cgf
>
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