On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 03:52:44PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >> I'm not sure if it would be easy to test that the path pointed to by a >> mount is valid and writable? Do you know of a clean way to do it? > >Umm, why not just test "[ -w /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts ]"? But as for >checking that it's mounted in binary mode, I can't think of a good way to >do this other than parse the output of mount, and in this case you're >probably better off forcing a umount and remounting.
Sounds like an interesting cygpath option: bash$ cygpath --mode /tmp binary I might take a stab at that since I can't suggest it to Igor. Is there a better name than --mode? cgf