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NAME="FILEIO-MOUNT-TABLE">Chapter 21. Mount Table</H1
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>The mount table records the filesystems that are actually active.
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These can be seen as being analogous to mount points in Unix systems.</P
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>There are two sources of mount table entries. Filesystems (or other
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>A mount table entry has the following structure:</P
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>struct cyg_mtab_entry
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    const char          *name;          // name of mount point
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    const char          *fsname;        // name of implementing filesystem
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    const char          *devname;       // name of hardware device
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    CYG_ADDRWORD        data;           // private data value
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    cyg_bool            valid;          // Valid entry?
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    cyg_fstab_entry     *fs;            // pointer to fstab entry
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point. This is used to direct rooted filenames (filenames that
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table entries. The entry that yields the longest match terminating
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before a &quot;/&quot;, or end of string, wins and the appropriate
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>       { "/",    "msdos", "/dev/hd0", ... }
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        { "/fd",  "msdos", "/dev/fd0", ... }
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        { "/rom", "romfs", "", ... }
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>An attempt to open &quot;/tmp/foo&quot; would be directed to the RAM
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>Unrooted file names (those that do not begin with a '/') are passed
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