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diff --git a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog index 5673e8abc..8733fc912 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2012-01-24 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> + + * pathnames.sgml (mount-table): Rephrase a few expressions for + clearness. + 2012-01-13 Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net> * new-features.sgml (ov-new1.7.10): Document support for the %m diff --git a/winsup/doc/pathnames.sgml b/winsup/doc/pathnames.sgml index d32d50c23..725cbb0c1 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/pathnames.sgml +++ b/winsup/doc/pathnames.sgml @@ -62,10 +62,15 @@ contains spaces these can be escaped as <literal>'\040'</literal>.</para> If the name of the mount point contains spaces these can be escaped as '\040'.</para> -<para>The third field describes the type of the filesystem. -Cygwin supports any string here, since the file system type is usually -not evaluated. The notable exception is the file system type -cygdrive. This type is used to set the cygdrive prefix.</para> +<para>The third field describes the type of the filesystem. Cygwin supports +any string here, since the file system type is usually not evaluated. So it +doesn't matter if you write <literal>FAT</literal> into this field even if +the filesystem is NTFS. Cygwin figures out the filesystem type and its +capabilities by itself.</para> + +<para>The only exception is the file system type cygdrive. This type is +used to set the cygdrive prefix. For a description of the cygdrive prefix +see <xref linkend="cygdrive"></xref></para> <para>The fourth field describes the mount options associated with the filesystem. It is formatted as a comma separated list of @@ -77,8 +82,8 @@ posix=[0|1]. The meaning of the options is as follows.</para> <screen> acl - Cygwin uses the filesystem's access control lists (ACLs) to implement real POSIX permissions (default). This flag only - affects filesystems supporting ACLs (NTFS) and is ignored - otherwise. + affects filesystems supporting ACLs (NTFS, for instance) and + is ignored otherwise. auto - Ignored. binary - Files default to binary mode (default). bind - Allows to remount part of the file hierarchy somewhere else. @@ -185,7 +190,7 @@ mount the root dir with special options (for instance, as text mount).</para> <screen> C:/Documents\040and\040Settings /docs ext3 binary 0 0</screen> </listitem> <listitem> - <para>A mount point for a remote directory without ACL support:</para> + <para>A mount point for a remote directory, don't store POSIX permissions in ACLs:</para> <screen> //server/share/subdir /srv/subdir smbfs binary,noacl 0 0</screen> </listitem> <listitem> |