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Re: trailing dots and spaces on Samba
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 10:01:24 -0400
- Subject: Re: trailing dots and spaces on Samba
- References: <20100428081556.GO1845@calimero.vinschen.de>
- Reply-to: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 10:15:56AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>So I was wondering if we shouldn't add more filesystem-specific settings
>to the mount options so a user can help herself instead of having to
>wait for us to fix Cygwin. After all, on Linux every filesystem invents
>its own mount options, too, as it goes along.
This was the conclusion that I came to as I was reading your description.
If we're going to do that we might want to think about a better way of
recognizing the options than just doing a bunch of strcmp's.
>For the above case, a mount option "dos" would come in handy, and an
>option "ihash" could be used for unrecognized filesystems which have no
>trustable inode numbers. These are the two more common cases and a
>good start, imho.
Sounds good to me.
cgf