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


On Apr  4 10:17, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 10:15:58AM -0400, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> >On Fri, 4 Apr 2008, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >> On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 04:06:56PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >> >Doesn't matter.  The code reading fstab understands LF and CRLF line
> >> >endings :)
> >>
> >> Maybe we should warn if fstab has CRLF endings.  Just to be nice.
> >
> >Us, nice?
> >
> >Maybe we could produce something mean, like: "Your fstab has CR characters
> >in it.  We'll let you off easy this time, but don't expect your mounts to
> >work if you persist in this antisocial behavior".
> 
> I was thinking more like:
> 
> *** <CR> detected in /etc/fstab.  Aborting.

Gosh.  If that's the nice sulution, I don't want to see the mean one...


Corinna

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