RE: [MiNT] MiNTLib 0.52.3b

["Julian Reschke" <reschke@muenster.de>]

> From: owner-mint@fishpool.com [mailto:owner-mint@fishpool.com]On Behalf
> Of Martin-Eric Racine
> Sent: Friday, August 06, 1999 12:56 PM
> To: Julian Reschke
> Cc: kellis; Martin-Eric Racine; MiNT List
> Subject: RE: [MiNT] MiNTLib 0.52.3b
>
>
> > > However, the ability to mount specific drives at specific
> > > points, instead of brainlessly auto-mounting all drives at
> > > root is definitely needed.
> >
> > Actually it is guaranteed that all available filesystems are
> visible on U:.
> > Changing this will break existing code.
>
> They can remain available, but should not polute the directory listing.
> We had this discussion a zillion times before, haven't we?  Last time
> was when Guido bought himself a new hard-disk and found himself with
> about 12 single-letter folders (i.e. drives) in U.

We had this discussion and I think there was a technical agreement that the
best approach is to set the directory entries to "hidden" so that they don't
appear in a normal directory listing. Everybody who asks for this
functionality can now sit down and add it to unifs.c (or what it is called).