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Re: Bug: Setup tool doesn't respect managed mountpoints/filesystems


Mark Paulus wrote:

> Has anyone explored the option of an IFS that would implement the cygwin
> managed filesystem semantics, but it would be transparent to all
> cygwin apps.  From the brief investigation I have done, it appears there would
> need to be 2 flavors, 9x/ME & NT/2K/XP, but that would relieve a big burden
> from the cygwin1.dll, I would estimate.

I don't know much about writing kernel mode code.  MS charges $109 for
the IFS SDK, so unless somebody's company sponsored it most people would
not have the tools or documentation.  I don't know if w32api has
reimplemented the required headers and libs to be able to compile such a
thing with gcc, and I don't think cygwin would want to accept binaries
that require MS tools to build.

Brian

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