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Re: [HEADSUP] Let's start a Cygwin 1.7 release area


On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 03:57:35PM -0400, Igor Peshansky wrote:
>On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Larry Hall wrote:
>
>> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> > On Apr  3 15:10, Larry Hall wrote:
>> > > Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> > > > On Apr  3 14:45, Larry Hall wrote:
>> > > > > # Commented line below represents the default '/' mount point.  To
>> > > > > override
>> > > > > # this, uncomment the line and make the appropriate changes.
>> > > > Well, it's *my* /etc/fstab file.  You can just omit the root dir entry
>> > > > on your machine, or override it with something else.  I don't think
>> > > > anybody on the world really needs or even expects an explaining comment
>> > > > on my local machine, except, maybe, a hacker :)
>> > > I guess I misunderstood.  I thought this was an example of a generated
>> > > fstab file.  So is there going to be a generated file with generated
>> > > entries too once this gets out into the "real world"?
>> >
>> > See http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2008-04/msg00002.html
>> > and http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2008-04/msg00003.html
>> >
>> > I guess that would be something for the postinstall script which
>> > is supposed to generate the fstab file.
>>
>> Ah.  A postinstall script.  Yeah, that could work.
>
>Ouch, I just realized: how is the postinstall script expected to run with
>no mount table?

Seems like linux somehow manages this feat.

cgf


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