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Re: trailing dots and spaces on Samba


On Apr 28 16:39, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Apr 28 10:01, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I agree, read_flags could really use bsearch instead of that
> hand-crafted loop.

And it might be a good idea to add a new cygwin_internal type which
exports the read_flags functionality.  In other words, which converts an
option string into the numerical option value.  The point is that
`mount' would not need to be changed anymore, just because we add or
remove a mount option.


Corinna

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