Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:03:27 +0100 | From | Alan Jenkins <> | Subject | Re: mounting windows shares with path exactly like on windows |
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kovlensky@interia.pl wrote:
> I'm sorry to be slightly off topic, when it comes to this list, but I have > no clue where to look for that and I think it can be doe on kernel level > only. > > In short - I've got bunch of applications running both on windows and > linux and these applications exchange links to files mounted on both > sides. The problem is that these paths are different, i.e. like > D:/dir/file on windows and /mountpoint/dir/file on Linux. What I need is > unifying them. So my idea is to have path translator on anything on kernel > level, which will make Linux open call to D:/dir/file on Linux work and > open /mountpoint/dir/file. Was anything close to that ever incorporated in > kernel?
Um, no.
More likely solutions are ptrace (intercept system calls using debugging interface) or similar LD_PRELOAD magic (see fakeroot for an example).
> Applications are, as usual, closed source, and support for them, also as > usual, answers "won't be fixed, switch to Windows, please". Very helpful. > > Any other ideas of solving this problem are also warmly welcomed. Also on > windows side.
I thought modern windows supported unix-like mounts, a bit like the old SUBST.EXE in dos. So you could then mount all other drive letters as subdirectories on the main drive. Don't ask me how to do it though :-).
Alan
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