From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19515 invoked by alias); 29 Jul 2011 09:21:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 19072 invoked by uid 22791); 29 Jul 2011 09:20:43 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from aquarius.hirmke.de (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (217.91.18.234) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.83/v0.83-20-g38e4449) with ESMTP; Fri, 29 Jul 2011 09:20:30 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id 33BC42C0636; Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:20:27 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 09:21:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Device names in /proc/mounts Message-ID: <20110729092027.GA19240@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20110728112154.GB16913@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <9B10FEAACF062F48A095880A451FF05903819B318E@DEMCHP99E84MSX.ww902.siemens.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9B10FEAACF062F48A095880A451FF05903819B318E@DEMCHP99E84MSX.ww902.siemens.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-07/txt/msg00367.txt.bz2 On Jul 29 09:45, Schwarz, Konrad wrote: > > From: Christopher Faylor > > We're not > > going to introduce this level of recursive confusion to the > > mount table handling. > > The proposal is sound. It works on Linux, after all. Ok, so I assume Cygwin should be able to load Linux kernel modules and provide tools like modprobe and lsmod, right? After all, it works on Linux. It does not really help to drive the compatibility in with a hammer. > > Please give it a rest. We're not changing the mount table for you. > Ok. > > Can you answer the following question: > > Given a volume label, how does one figure out where the corresponding > volume has been mounted into the Cygwin namespace? We're not mounting volumes, we're mounting Win32 paths. There is no direct correspondence between volumes and Cygwin mount points. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple