Re: Cygwin-Xfree-Opendx Question

[Alexander Gottwald <Alexander dot Gottwald at informatik dot tu-chemnitz dot de>]

On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> >Perhaps a simple utility for changing the mount mode of all Cygwin mounts
> >would be in order, or perhaps the functionality could be added to 'mount'.
> >Just a thought... I know I haven't got time to do it.  Would anyone like to
> >volunteer?
> 
> How about thinking about this from the UNIX point of view?  Just write a
> script to do uhis.  Iterate over the mount options and change any text
> mounts to binary.
> 

done. attachment a small script.

bye
    ago
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#!/bin/sh
case "$1" in
    -t*|--textmode)
        oldmode="binmode"
        newstring="textmode"
        newmode="-t"
        ;;
    -b*|--binmode)
        oldmode="textmode"
        newstring="binmode"
        newmode="-b"
        ;;
    *)
        echo "usage: $0 [-t|-b|--textmode|--binmode]"
        echo "change all mountpoints to textmode (-t) or binmode (-b)"
        exit 255
        ;;
esac        
           
mount |
    grep -v noumount| 
    grep $oldmode|
    sed 's/\\/\//g'|
    while read WINPATH CYGPATH TYPE MODE; do 
        echo -n "Changing $CYGPATH ($WINPATH) to $newstring..." 
        mount -f $newmode $WINPATH $CYGPATH && echo "done" || echo "failed"; 
    done