On Apr 2 14:35, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Having said that, I would like to ask especially you package maintainers
> to set up a separate machine or a separate cygwin directory for the 1.7
> release. Right now we have the problem that the mount points in the
> registry are still shared between a 1.5 and a 1.7 release, so you will
> have to create some batch files to switch the mount points between the
> two installations, if you do this on a single machine. That's a bit of
> a hassle, but it's doable, ok?
I have applied a preliminary patch to Cygwin which allows to load the
mount entries from /etc/fstab and /etc/fstab.<usersid>. If none of
these files is available, the DLL falls back to reading the mount points
from the registry.
This allows to install a 1.7 Cygwin tree which is independent from a
parallel 1.5.x installation in terms of mount points. It's still not a
good idea to *run* two parallel DLLs, though.
Cygwin finds the fstab files by fetching it's own Win32 path and then
replacing the last two path components with etc/fstab or
etc/fstab.<usersid>, like this:
Get own path ==> C:\\cygwin\\bin\\cygwin1.dll
Where's fstab? ==> C:\\cygwin\\etc\\fstab
The layout of the fstab file follows the Linux layout. As example,
these are my fstab files:
$ cat /etc/fstab
C:\cygwin / ntfs binary 0 0
C:\cygwin\bin /usr/bin ntfs binary 0 0
C:\cygwin\lib /usr/lib ntfs binary 0 0
C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts ntfs binary 0 0
\\fs01\archiv /home/archiv smbfs binary 0 0
cygdrive /mnt auto binary 0 0
$ cat /etc/fstab.S-1-5-21-1220945662-261903793-725345543-1003
C:\cygwin\home\corinna\textmode-dir /home/corinna/textmode-dir ntfs text 0 0
c:\cygwin\home\corinna\managed /home/corinna/managed ntfs binary,managed 0 0
Leading spaces and tabs are ignored. Spaces and tabs are field
separators. Lines starting with a # are skipped. Maximum line length
is 64K. Malformed lines are ignored.
First string: Native path.
The special string "cygdrive" allows to specify the
cygdrive prefix.
Max length 260 bytes for now.
Second string: POSIX path. For "cygdrive" the cygdrive prefix.
Max length 260 bytes for now.
Thirds string: FS type, ignored.
Forth string: Flags list, separated by comma.
Valid flags: binary,text,exec,notexec,cygexec,nosuid,managed.
For a description, see Cygwin's `man mount'
Fifth and sixth string: Ignored.
FAQ: Q: Where do I get my SID from?
A: See your /etc/passwd entry, the string starting with S-1-.
Corinna
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