On Sat, 5 Jul 2003, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > > Of Christopher Faylor > > > Anyway, expect a testing version of 1.5.0 soon. Just to whet your > > appetite a little, I also added a new mount option to this release: > > > > mount -o managed c:/foo /foo > > > > A managed mount means that file names are entirely managed by cygwin. > > Any directory managed in this manner will allow the creation of files > > like "aux", "com1", "abc:def", and files which differ only by case. > > This is accomplished by munging the filenames in a manner that makes > > them appear very strange to windows so manipulation of files in these > > directories is REALLY not recommended. > > Hmm... This makes me think of the "umsdos" filesystem for Linux. > > I don't have the time and knowledge to look at it myself so this is just a > "Wild Ass Idea" that I think could launch others thoughts: > > Would it be possible to use the source of the above mentioned filesystem > for a complete cygwin managed filesystem? > It was considered slow at the time I used it, but it did what it was > supposed to.
Well it's a little harder than that. :-) You'd need an umsdos fhandler and some other stuff..I think Robert Collins was once working on an umsdos fhandler. All this talk of filesystem types makes me want to implement a shm device. > > Unlike the 64 bit stuff which really appears to be rock solid, the > > managed directory stuff should still be considered an "at your own > > risk" type of thing. So while 1.5.0 will be beta quality, the managed > > stuff will be alpha quality. > > At times I'm amazed of the mere quantity of the work you two do here... > not to mention the quality of it. > > Out of curiosity: What do you two do for a living? Chris is the RCM for Cygwin and Corinna is the 5* student :-) > /Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE - Micro Computer Systems, 59~14'N, 17~12'E > ~ <=> degree Elfyn -- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/