On Fri, 21 Jul 2006, Dave Korn wrote: > STC: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /> mkdir mnt > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /> cd mnt > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /mnt> mkdir foo > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /mnt> ls > foo > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /mnt> mount -s C:\\ /mnt/foo/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /mnt> mount -u C:\\ /mnt/foo/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /mnt> mount | grep foo > C: on /mnt/foo type user (binmode) > C: on /mnt/foo type system (binmode) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /mnt> ls > foo foo > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /mnt> > > I take it this is not desired behaviour, and that the right thing > would be for the system-mount to override - and hence hide - the > user-mount? If so, I could whip up a patch over the weekend.
Definitely not desired, but historically user mounts overrode system mounts (the rationale being that the user can always change user mounts, but not everyone has permissions to change the system ones). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- 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/