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Re: mount -X and FAQ [Attn: FAQ Maintainer, tcl maintainer]


On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 02:21:51PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 10:59:55AM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
> >On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 01:22:10PM -0700, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
> >>On 9/16/05, Eric Blake wrote:
> >>>According to Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) on 9/15/2005 10:48 AM:
> >>>>The FAQ (http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq_3.html) mentions using this
> >>>>idiom for strace and cygcheck, but not for Tcl/Tk.  Perhaps these
> >>>>should be noted as well?
> >>>
> >>>Now that strace and cygcheck work in without having to explicitly mount
> >>>them non-cygexec, the FAQ needs updating anyways.
> >>
> >>OK.  Maybe I'll take a stab at creating a script to find exe's in /bin/
> >>not linked to cygwin1.dll and put that in the FAQ instead.
> >
> >There's a hardcoded limit to number of mount points, isn't there?
> >Perhaps you should mention that in the FAQ too.
> 
> I think this should be a change for the standard documentation now the
> FAQ, primarily because this is the first time I can think of that this
> question/observation has been made.

s/now/not/ ??

Do you mean the whole idea of -X-mounting /bin?  Or the limit on mount
points?  If just the latter, the FAQ about the former should also
mention the limit if it gives a recipe that potentially could create
too many.

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