From: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: A few Windows build fixes
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2011 12:43:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vz1fwkfp3ug.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 83y5y7cthv.fsf@gnu.org
On Fri 02 Sep 2011, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com>
>> Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2011 01:14:02 +0100
>>
>> > (convert-standard-filename
>> > "/cygdrive/c/programs/emacs-24.0.50/lisp/w32-fns.el")
>> >
>> > ; => "c:\\programs\\emacs-24.0.50\\lisp\\w32-fns.el"
>> >
>> > does the right thing.
>>
>> This is buggy. The '/cygdrive' prefix can be replaced per-user or system
>> wide - see the cygwin mount(1) manpage for details.
>
> Full support for Cygwin-specific file names can only happen on the C
> level. E.g., in w32.c:normalize_filename. We should probably have a
> similar function in ntlib, because lib-src programs will need to use
> it as well (see the example with emacsclient posted here).
>
> Anything else will necessarily be buggy or at least incomplete.
I disagree. The right way to get the cygwin mount points is to run
'mount -m' and look at the output. Doing so at the C level properly
involves calling into the cygwin DLL, which is fragile for a non-cygwin
application.
> And even on the C level, this should be a user option, because
> otherwise users who don't have Cygwin anywhere in sight will be unable
> to have a real `x:/cygdrive' directory on each of their logical disks.
Agreed.
While cygwin-mount.el is too intrusive, its approach of running mount is
correct. Perhaps a conmbination of the mount table from cygwin-mount.el
integrated with some tramp support would do it ?
AndyM
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-02 11:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-28 22:46 A few Windows build fixes Hannu Koivisto
2011-08-29 6:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-29 8:18 ` Hannu Koivisto
2011-08-29 10:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-29 12:03 ` Hannu Koivisto
2011-08-29 13:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-29 15:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-08-29 16:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-29 15:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-08-29 16:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-29 19:48 ` Jan Djärv
2011-08-31 2:42 ` Vijay Lakshminarayanan
2011-08-31 6:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-31 13:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-01 17:55 ` Vijay Lakshminarayanan
2011-09-02 0:14 ` Andy Moreton
2011-09-02 7:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-02 11:43 ` Andy Moreton [this message]
2011-09-02 12:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-02 14:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-02 14:18 ` Jason Rumney
2011-09-02 14:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-02 14:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-02 14:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-02 15:48 ` Vijay Lakshminarayanan
2011-09-02 16:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-06 2:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-06 4:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-06 18:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-06 18:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-07 3:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-07 5:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-07 12:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-07 16:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-08 8:33 ` Hannu Koivisto
2011-09-08 8:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-08 9:06 ` Hannu Koivisto
2011-09-02 15:50 ` Vijay Lakshminarayanan
2011-09-02 2:48 ` Stefan Monnier
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