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Re: mount
- To: alexl@i-france.com
- Subject: Re: mount
- From: DJ Delorie <dj@delorie.com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 16:58:05 -0500
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- In-reply-to: <36CDDCF1.14D154DA@i-france.com> (message from Alex on Fri, 19Feb 1999 22:51:45 +0100)
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> is it possible to mount ISO9660 image with cygwin mount provides
> with the b20.1 ?
The cygwin mount command does nothing more than map existing windows
paths (like c:\foo) to posix-like paths (like /foo). It simulates a
few raw devices, like /dev/null and /dev/fd0. It does not simulate
file systems other than the ones that windows already supports.
So, the answer is "yes" if and only if windows can do it, and I don't
think windows can treat a file like a device (like Linux can).
One novel project for some enterprising programmer would be to add the
equivalent of DJGPP's "File System Extensions", which could be used to
do exactly that (*if* someone wrote the module to handle it). You'd
do something like "mount -t iso9660 blah.cd /cdrom" and cygwin would
load the fs-iso9660.dll driver to deal with it.
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- From: Alex <alexl@i-france.com>
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- From: Alex <alexl@i-france.com>