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Re: [PATCH] patch.cc: cygdrive_getmntent () - Unify behaviour with fhandler_cygdrive
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- To: cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 00:49:47 -0400
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] patch.cc: cygdrive_getmntent () - Unify behaviour with fhandler_cygdrive
- References: <20030802141248.GB16831@redhat.com> <13970.1059840677@www56.gmx.net>
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On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 06:11:17PM +0200, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
>> On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 01:53:21PM +0200, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
>> >Here is a simple patch which makes the behaviour of getmntent ()
>> >consistent with the one of fhandler_cygdrive.
>>
>> The reason this is there is to avoid long delays in mount table
>> listings.
>
>Well, I guessed so, but it would be more convinient and consistent if
>calling getmntent() could retrieve all the accesible (mounted) drives.
>Anyway, I guess i'll be using readdir () :)
After giving this a couple days of thought, I decided that this was
not hobgoblin related so I'm going to check this in.
cgf