Re: trailing dots and spaces on Samba

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Apr 28 10:01, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 10:15:56AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >So I was wondering if we shouldn't add more filesystem-specific settings
> >to the mount options so a user can help herself instead of having to
> >wait for us to fix Cygwin.  After all, on Linux every filesystem invents
> >its own mount options, too, as it goes along.
> 
> This was the conclusion that I came to as I was reading your description.
> If we're going to do that we might want to think about a better way of
> recognizing the options than just doing a bunch of strcmp's.

I agree, read_flags could really use bsearch instead of that
hand-crafted loop.

> >For the above case, a mount option "dos" would come in handy, and an
> >option "ihash" could be used for unrecognized filesystems which have no
> >trustable inode numbers.  These are the two more common cases and a
> >good start, imho.
> 
> Sounds good to me.

Thanks,
Corinna

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