On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 10:18:17AM -0400, Igor Peshansky wrote: >On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Igor Peshansky wrote: >> [...] And if we make it the job of /etc/postinstall/base-files-mketc.sh, >> we're depriving the user of a scarce resource -- a mount table entry >> (unless we raise the limit, but then again it won't work for older >> versions). > >I'm not very much in favor of silently creating unnecessary mount points. >There were cases where it was unavoidable (in the case of XWin fonts and >textmode mounts), but in this case an extra-mount-free solution exists. > >I just checked the source, and apparently the limit on the number of mount >entries is 30, not 16 (as previously stated). Given the fact that >/cygdrive/* mounts exist outside of this limit, the mount table entries >aren't as scarce a resource as I imagined. My mount tables have skirted >15 or so entries, but never got close to 30.
I don't know who said they were 16 but, if the number of mount points was a real problem then increasing them would be a trivial change, as opposed to hacking at cygwin's path handling to add YA special case. >However, the only possible advantage of having that mount would be if we >could then copy the symlinks to another installation and have them work >seamlessly. Unfortunately, given that the files that the symlinks refer >to live at different paths relative to the windows directory on different >windows versions, this is not going to happen. There are other benefits to creating a mount point besides copying between different installations. In fact, I don't recall copying between installations being raised in this thread. I think that it is important to investigate using known techniques for dealing with problems before suggesting semi-drastic modifications to the Cygwin DLL. And, as long as I'm here, let me remind everyone that no matter what happens we are not going to be adding anything under /dev. cgf -- 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/
