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Re: Heads-up: postinstall scripts and PATH (Attn all package maintainers)


On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 04:41:08PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 03:52:44PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>> >> I'm not sure if it would be easy to test that the path pointed to by a
>> >> mount is valid and writable?  Do you know of a clean way to do it?
>> >
>> >Umm, why not just test "[ -w /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts ]"?  But as for
>> >checking that it's mounted in binary mode, I can't think of a good way to
>> >do this other than parse the output of mount, and in this case you're
>> >probably better off forcing a umount and remounting.
>>
>> Sounds like an interesting cygpath option:
>>
>>   bash$ cygpath --mode /tmp
>>   binary
>>
>> I might take a stab at that since I can't suggest it to Igor.
>>
>> Is there a better name than --mode?
>
>I guess --mount-mode, to make it explicit.  For a short option, "-M" seems
>unused.

I thought about that but it's not really only a "mount mode", though.
The file may not actually be mounted.

cgf


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