mount --show-cygdrive-prefixes patch

Jason Tishler Jason.Tishler@dothill.com
Tue Nov 7 17:32:00 GMT 2000


Chris,

On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 12:00:18AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> Won't this cause core dumps for older programs which might have relied
> on the previous behavior?  I realize that there were probably exactly of
> zero of these outside of the mount program, but I'd rather have the old
> mount continue to work with the new cygwin.

Isn't mount.exe upgraded when cygwin1.dll is upgraded?

> I guess this means that we'll have to invent a new
> CW_GET_CYGDRIVE_PREFIXES_AND_FLAGS to accomodate this.

Anyway, I will do as you suggest and resubmit my patch.

Jason

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