On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 05:03:04PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: >On 7/3/2013 3:50 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Jul 3 22:24, Alexey Pavlov wrote: >>> 2013/7/3 Christopher Faylor: >>> I need it to be able read short mount points from fstab: <win32_path> >>> <posix_path>. >>> All other options are set by default. With my changes I can have in >>> /etc/fstab both types of mount points - cygwin-like and msys-like. >> >> And why is that necessary? There are always default options set anyway, >> but a layout change of the fstab file simply makes no sense. There's no >> win at all. > >I think Alexey is trying to replicate MSYS's behavior, so it becomes >more of a drop-in replacement. Here's my MSYS /etc/fstab (MSYS doesn't >yet support per-user fstab.d/username settings): > >C:/MinGW /mingw >C:/Users/me/Desktop /desktop >C:/Users/me/Documents /docs >C:/msys-src /usr/src
I think Cygwin fstab parsing could be loosened up to allow that syntax. >I agree with Corinna that there's no need to make cygwin-in-msys-mode >EXACTLY like MSYS in all of its configuration settings (such as the >syntax of /etc/fstab). > >Your MSYS-like cygwin installation would have its own /etc/fstab (in >regular cygwin format), but perhaps your /home area is mapped >differently in that fstab, than in the /etc/fstab in your "regular" >cygwin installation. Or, like me, I have a separate msys-src and >cygwin-src directory mapped onto MSYS's /usr/src and cygwin's /usr/src, >respectively. > >Or is the proposal on the table for the same installation to be usable >in both modes, depending on the nature of the launched application? That's an interesting idea but I don't think anyone was proposing that. Is there any reason why we'd need to add a hook to filename parsing? That would be an alternative to hooking fstab. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
