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Re: bind mounts in fstab
- From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko at NexGo dot DE>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 16:04:53 +0000 (UTC)
- Subject: Re: bind mounts in fstab
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- References: <loom dot 20150608T122736-327 at post dot gmane dot org> <20150608124548 dot GG3005 at calimero dot vinschen dot de> <loom dot 20150608T164231-729 at post dot gmane dot org> <20150608154849 dot GB13266 at calimero dot vinschen dot de>
Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes:
> Easily reproducible, thank you. I think I found the culprit. mount(1)
> always converts the mnt_fsname field to backslash notation. That breaks
> converting the bind mount from the expected POSIX notation to a valid
> Win32 path.
>
> I fixed mount(1) in git. If you're set up to build Cygwin yourself, you
> want to give the patch a try. No new DLL, just call the new mount(1)
> tool. Otherwise I'll build a new snapshot today or tomorrow (I'm hacking
> on something else right now).
I had to repurpose the local disk space that the Cygwin build environment
took up and haven't had time to move this to a server yet. So I'll have to
wait for the snapshot...
Regards,
Achim.
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