On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 11:05:13AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Lemke, Michael IZ/HZA-IOM wrote: > > > > > This is my current mount table: > > > > > > pc00626> mount -m > > > mount -f -s -b "c:/MyStuff/cygwin/bin" "/usr/bin" > > > mount -f -s -b "c:/MyStuff/cygwin/lib" "/usr/lib" > > > mount -f -s -b "c:/MyStuff/cygwin" "/" > > > mount -f -s -t -E "u:" "/u" > > > mount -s -b --change-cygdrive-prefix "/" > > > > > > Note that /u is mounted textmode while the rest is binary. However, > > > if I access files on /u they are binmode as well. But when I > > > change the mode of the drive prefix to text then /u is also text. > > > Seems like prefix is overwriting the explicit setting for /u. If > > > the drive prefix is something else but /u is still there then /u > > > is not affected by the prefix settings. Is this intended behavior? > > > > Looks like the cygdrive prefix takes precedence over explicit mounts. > > This is arguably a bug. <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC>. > > Corinna or Chris, care to comment? > > My name doesn't start with C, but I will comment that if the precedence > went the other way, a mount like: > > mount c:/foo /cygdrive/d > > would make a windows path d:\bar have no posix translation.
How is this different from mount c:/baz /somemount mount c:/foo /somemount/d (except for the fact that /cygdrive/d is an automount)? I'm actually not sure what's meant by "posix translation" in this context... Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/