XFree and File Systems
Vince Hoffman
Vince.Hoffman@uk.circle.com
Tue Dec 31 09:35:00 GMT 2002
actualy there is a working NFS server but its still in testing. (search the
cygwin-apps mailing list for details) no NFS client i know of though.
the URL was http://www.oneparticularharbor.net/cygwin/
only tried it for an afternoon though.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexander Gottwald
> [mailto:Alexander.Gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de]
> Sent: 31 December 2002 01:23
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: XFree and File Systems
>
>
> Sylvain Petreolle wrote:
>
> > Hasn't got cygwin any nfs port ?
>
> No. This does not make sense since the NFS driver must be
> attached to the
> windows VFS. It would be possible to write a fhandler for
> cygwin which
> does all the nfs stuff but then only cygwin programs could access the
> nfs files. It's the same as the /proc filesystem for cygwin.
>
> NP: VNV Nation - Procession
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