diff options
| author | Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> | 2015-12-01 15:02:14 +0100 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> | 2015-12-07 17:37:44 +0100 |
| commit | fb71716d2c248de22ecd86dd8e3a1f4185eb8e87 (patch) | |
| tree | e86a1fed507c62251bcfe17b7832c8d8fcde3dc1 /winsup/doc/ChangeLog | |
| parent | 5644f71428ba571b733db255e31dc39aba13ad8a (diff) | |
| download | newlib-fb71716d2c248de22ecd86dd8e3a1f4185eb8e87.zip newlib-fb71716d2c248de22ecd86dd8e3a1f4185eb8e87.tar.gz newlib-fb71716d2c248de22ecd86dd8e3a1f4185eb8e87.tar.bz2 | |
Introduce the 'usertemp' filesystem type
* mount.cc (mount_info::from_fstab_line): Support mounting the current
user's temp folder as /tmp/. This is particularly useful a feature
when Cygwin's own files are write-protected.
* pathnames.xml: document the new usertemp file system type
Detailed explanation:
In the context of Windows, there is a per-user directory for temporary
files, by default specified via the environment variable %TEMP%. Let's
allow to use that directory for our /tmp/ directory.
With this patch, we introduce the special filesystem type "usertemp":
By specifying
none /tmp usertemp binary,posix=0 0 0
in /etc/fstab, the /tmp/ directory gets auto-mounted to the directory
specified by the %TEMP% variable.
This feature comes handy in particularly in scenarios where the
administrator might want to write-protect the entire Cygwin directory
yet still needs to allow users to write into the /tmp/ directory.
This is the case in the context of Git for Windows, where the
Cygwin (MSys2) root directory lives inside C:\Program Files and hence
/tmp/ would not be writable otherwise.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'winsup/doc/ChangeLog')
| -rw-r--r-- | winsup/doc/ChangeLog | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog index f9ae2b5..4bdeb5f 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2015-12-07 Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> + + * pathnames.xml: Document the new usertemp file system type. + 2015-12-06 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> * new-features.xml (ov-new2.4): Document cygpath -U option. |