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


On Apr  3 15:59, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 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.

Besides, Cygwin now sets the root dir by default so there's not much of
a problem to find the /etc dir to create an fstab file.  If you start
bash, you have a root mount point.


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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