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Re: mount -m in cygwin 1.7


On Dec 11 14:53, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 02:43:47PM -0500, Ken Brown wrote:
> >I have a small suggestion concerning mount -m.  According to the user's
> >guide, mount -m is supposed to produce output that can be pasted into
> >/etc/fstab.  This would be easier if mount -m printed forward slashes
> >in windows paths instead of backslashes.
> 
> I agree.
> 
> I think that it's probably better to do this across the board for all
> mount output.  I'll look into making this change.

Thanks.  That's a bug I introduced in mount anyway.  The Windows path
is supposed to be slashified.  I even documented it that way in the
default /etc/fstab comment.


Corinna

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