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Re: [PATCH]Write Mount Commands


----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>
To: <cygwin-patches@cygwin.com>
Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 15:03
Subject: Re: [PATCH]Write Mount Commands


> On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 12:31:25PM -0700, Michael A. Chase wrote:
> >Here's the patch to mount to tell it to write the commands needed to
> >re-create the current mount table.
> >
> >Users of Win9x might be confused if they create the commands from a bash
> >prompt and then try to run the resulting file from command.com.  In my
> >system (which has binary mount points),
> >   mount -m > file
> >produced a file with NL line endings which command.com chokes on.
Running
> >the same command from the MSDOS prompt produced a file with CRLF line
> >endings.
>
> That's what I would expect.
>
> I've checked this in.  It looks very nice, with one exception.
>
> I don't think you should be displaying mount commands for the default
drive
> stuff, i.e. mount -f -u -t "u:" "/cygdrive/u"

I didn't realize I was.  In my system, all the potential /cygdrive/u entries
are already explicitly mounted which hides the feature of getmntent() which
returns the /cygdrive/u entries along with the explicit mounts.  I'll see if
there is some way I can filter those out.  If you can give me a hint, that
would make my work quicker.

> Also, I wonder if it would be nicer only to quote the path specs which
contain
> spaces?

I decided it was safer to quote regardless.  There are more than just spaces
that could cause problems and I didn't want to take the chance of missing a
couple.  I guess I could check for (") and escape it, but that would
probably break calling the output script from MSDOS.

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