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Re: [HEADSUP] Let's start a Cygwin 1.7 release area
On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Larry Hall wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Apr 3 15:10, Larry Hall wrote:
> > > Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > > On Apr 3 14:45, Larry Hall wrote:
> > > > > # Commented line below represents the default '/' mount point. To
> > > > > override
> > > > > # this, uncomment the line and make the appropriate changes.
> > > > Well, it's *my* /etc/fstab file. You can just omit the root dir entry
> > > > on your machine, or override it with something else. I don't think
> > > > anybody on the world really needs or even expects an explaining comment
> > > > on my local machine, except, maybe, a hacker :)
> > > I guess I misunderstood. I thought this was an example of a generated
> > > fstab file. So is there going to be a generated file with generated
> > > entries too once this gets out into the "real world"?
> >
> > See http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2008-04/msg00002.html
> > and http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2008-04/msg00003.html
> >
> > I guess that would be something for the postinstall script which
> > is supposed to generate the fstab file.
>
> Ah. A postinstall script. Yeah, that could work.
Ouch, I just realized: how is the postinstall script expected to run with
no mount table?
Igor
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