On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Doru Carastan wrote: > How about breaking free from using the windoze registry. There is > absolutely no special need to use it IMO. All the mount info can be stored > in a plain ASCII file like 'cygwin.cfg'. As part of its initialization the > cygwin1.dll can use GetModuleFileName() to figure out from where it was > loaded and attempt to parse a possible config file located in the same dir > with it. If this fails it will assume that it was loaded from /bin and > attempt to read the config file from ../etc. If this fails then it can > throw an error or try to recover the old info from the registry and generate > the file based on it. Once it knows about the system mounts it will look in > the user's home dir for something like .cygwinrc and get from there any user > mounts and other settings like the ones set using the CYGWIN env variable. > > Let me know if I missed something. > > Thank you, > Doru Carastan
This has been suggested by Chris Faylor on the cygwin-developers list about 3 weeks ago. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Water molecules expand as they grow warmer" (C) Popular Science, Oct'02, p.51 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/