Cygdrive Path Prefix Patch Issue
Chris Faylor
cgf@cygnus.com
Thu Jun 15 09:35:00 GMT 2000
On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 08:02:43AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>--- Jason Tishler <Jason.Tishler@dothill.com> wrote:
>-8<-
>>
>> I looked into the df source -- specifically read_filesystem_list() in
>> fileutils/lib/mountlist.c. The current implementation would attempt
>> to interpret the cygdrive prefixes as ordinary file systems.
>>
>> > and if there is a way to work around it.
>>
>> I can add Cygwin specific code to ignore the cygdrive prefixes. But,
>> I'm concerned that all other code that uses getmntent() would need a
>> similar change.
>>
>> DJ Delorie wrote:
>> > Could getmntent be extended to return, as one of the entries, the
>> > automount path?
>>
>> Implementing the above is certainly doable but will be fairly ugly.
>>
>> Do we really want to go with this approach? If the consensus is yes,
>> then I will do so. Are there any other, hopefully better, alternatives
>> before I dive in?
>
>This certainly sounds like we *don't* want to use this approach. AFAICT a new
>function named something like getumntent() would be better suited.
Yeah, I guess I have to agree. I don't like adding cygwin_foo stuff if I can
help it but if there is no other alternative, then I guess that's what we
should do.
Hmm. I wonder if the 'sysconf' interface has anything like this.
cgf
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