RE: [MiNT] MiNTLib 0.52.3b

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

> From: Martin-Eric Racine [mailto:q-funk@pp.fishpool.com]On Behalf Of
> Martin-Eric Racine
> Sent: Friday, August 06, 1999 2:52 PM
> To: Julian Reschke
> Cc: Jo-Even.Skarstein@gjensidige.no; mint@fishpool.com
> Subject: RE: [MiNT] MiNTLib 0.52.3b
> 
> 
> > > Oh?  How could libraries insert a device?  Please explain.
> > 
> > Because your shell is linked against a library which fakes 
> these entries.
> > They can "invent" entries and report them just as if they would 
> be really
> > there.
> 
> Ouch!  Now, _that_ is a serious problem. 
> You wouldn't happen to know which Mintlib version did this,
> just so that we avoid linking with it?

All of them I guess.

> > > > > Couldn't U: also hide the single-letter drives the same way, but
> > > > > still make them available to whichever app request /c etc.?
> > >
> > > Making them hidden by default, but still accessible, would be nice.
> > 
> > No. By default they should be visible.
> 
> As long as there is some compile option for this, I won't mind
> setting it accordingly and recompiling my own kernel.  Settled.

OK. Have a nice weekend :-)