Re: Cygdrive Path Prefix Patch Issue

[Jason Tishler <Jason dot Tishler at dothill dot com>]

Chris Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 05:23:13PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> >
> >> I think this is the best solution, actually.  It could return a flag
> >> indicating that this was a "cygdrive prefix" mount.  I don't know
> >> why this would screw up anything.
> >
> >I was thinking of "df".
> 
> Good point.  It's worth looking at the df sources to see if this would
> cause a problem

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?

Thanks,
Jason

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