From: jsturm@sigma6.com (Jeff Sturm) Subject: Re: mounts, ls, and filename completion 16 Aug 1998 06:48:31 -0700 Message-ID: <35D49B0C.D2DDEE1B.cygnus.gnu-win32@sigma6.com> References: <19980814015608.28330.rocketmail@send101.yahoomail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Earnie Boyd wrote: > ---Geoffrey Noer wrote: > > I also consider the /// system for referring to drives a > > Bad Idea (tm) since it conflicts with the UNC namespace. I'm somewhat > > thinking of removing this functionality and replacing it with > > something more sensible but this may be too painful for everyone for > > us to contemplate it seriously. :-( > > Please, consider it. I would even ask that you go as far as > considering creating /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab files. The usual /etc/fstab stuff is kept in the registry by cygwin32, and the /etc/mtab equivalent is in shared memory. Would the convenience of including these files be worth the nuisance of keeping them in sync? My wish is to see development start on a /proc pseudo-filesystem interface for cygwin32. Internal tables like the mount table, process table, etc. could become user accessible via /proc, something like /proc/fstab and /proc/mtab perhaps... these could even be symlinked to /etc for read-only access to legacy applications that expect to find those tables in the filesystem. -- Jeff Sturm jsturm@sigma6.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".