New output from mount.exe

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Mon Apr 2 07:59:00 GMT 2001


On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 04:58:52PM +0900, Kazuhiro Fujieda wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 2 Apr 2001 09:48:00 +0200
>>>> Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@redhat.com> said:
>
>> > problem, and you really do want the backslashes for UNCs.
>> 	       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> 	       ???????????????????????????????????????????
>
>It may mean "\\\\SERVER\\SHARE".
>I don't want many backslashes like it.
>
>> For just printing slashes are nicer and Cygwin doesn't have any
>> problems with slashes for UNC paths.
>
>I agree with you.

Again, this was not the rationale for this change.  Here is the change
to mount.exe:

-  const char *format = "%-18s  %-18s  %-11s  %s\n";
+  const char *format = "%s on %s type %s (%s)\n";

I didn't reformat slashes or do anything else that was not in the
original version of mount.

cgf



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