1.7.6-1: mount -p and mount --show-cygdrive-prefix broken in latest release

[Brian Kelly <reedfish at ix dot netcom dot com>]

I have a script that relies on these mount options to discover how the prefix is set. I did an upgrade a couple days ago, and the script broke. Looking in the log, I discovered the following error:

$ mount -p
mount: invalid option - ''

You get the same error when I tried the other argument:

$ mount --show-cygdrive-prefix
mount: invalid option - ''

This behavior is seen in the straight bash environment, outside of my script. Apparently with the latest update. I noticed mount work was done in this release New Cygwin DLL 1.7.6-1 release:

- Add new mount options "dos" and "ihash" to allow overriding Cygwin
  default behaviour on broken filesystems not recognized by Cygwin.
  See http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table
  and http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#mount

- Add new mount option "bind" to allow remounting parts of the POSIX file
  hirarchy somewhere else.
  See http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table
  and http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#mount

If this option was removed, the man page is not reflecting it, and user documentation is not reflecting it.

Output from cygcheck -s -v -r > cygcheck.out is attached.

Thanks

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