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Re: Bug: Setup tool doesn't respect managed mountpoints/filesystems


could you forward the link for th IFS SDK?

I would like to have the license reviewed, etc.

On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, Brian Dessent wrote:

Mark Paulus wrote:

Has anyone explored the option of an IFS that would implement the cygwin
managed filesystem semantics, but it would be transparent to all
cygwin apps.  From the brief investigation I have done, it appears there would
need to be 2 flavors, 9x/ME & NT/2K/XP, but that would relieve a big burden
from the cygwin1.dll, I would estimate.

I don't know much about writing kernel mode code. MS charges $109 for the IFS SDK, so unless somebody's company sponsored it most people would not have the tools or documentation. I don't know if w32api has reimplemented the required headers and libs to be able to compile such a thing with gcc, and I don't think cygwin would want to accept binaries that require MS tools to build.

Brian

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