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Re: loopback devise (was Re: mknod implementation? ... )


On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 12:49:21AM -0600, Robert Citek wrote:
>
>At 08:37 PM 2/24/2003 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 01:52:15PM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
>>>Does Cygwin have a loopback block device?
>>
>>No.
>>
>>As Randall correctly points out, the existence of the mknod command has
>>no bearing on the existence of functionality like a loopback device.
>
>Are there plans to include the functionality of a loopback device in future
>releases of Cygwin?

No, there are no such plans?

>If so, what can I do to help that process along?  Keep in mind I am not
>a systems programer.

Sounds like if you became a systems programmer that would help things along.

cgf

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