RE: [MiNT] MiNTLib 0.52.3b

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

Why the hell should the *kernel* start these utilities???

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Julian F. Reschke (mailto:reschke@medicaldataservice.de)
MedicalData Service GmbH Münster, Germany

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-mint@fishpool.com [mailto:owner-mint@fishpool.com]On Behalf
> Of Martin-Eric Racine
> Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 1999 2:19 PM
> To: Julian Reschke
> Cc: Michael Schwingen; MiNT List
> Subject: RE: [MiNT] MiNTLib 0.52.3b
>
>
> On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, Julian Reschke wrote:
>
> > > Then tell me how MiNT handles running the correct fsck tool
> >
> > The list of mounted file systems is available on u:\. Their type can be
> > inquired using a Dcntl call. What else do you need?
>
> Seems like our solution right there:
>
> Have some kernel routine that does Dcntl on all drives found and
> calls the appropriate filesystem checker (fsck, e2fsck) based on
> those findings.  The FSCKs could reside as TTPs in multitos/ and
> we therefore would avoid all troubles related to fstab usage.
>
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