Re: /etc/setup.conf

2003-03-10 Thread Max Bowsher
to find setup.conf via the mount table. If found, load, if not, don't. On leaving the / mount page, check if it was changed, if so, try to load the new setup.conf. I think we should *not* revert to defaults in this case. Yes, this means that settings from /etc/setup.conf will be propagated to /etc/setup.conf - I don't think this is a problem. Max.

Re: /etc/setup.conf

2003-03-10 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On 10 Mar 2003, Robert Collins wrote: > Ok, a few pragmatic thoughts: > > * When do we parse it? > It's not trivial: > - if we parse on startup, and the user changes the cygwin / path during runtime, > should we revert to defaults? > - if we wait for the / path to be chosen, we can't store any pr

/etc/setup.conf

2003-03-10 Thread Robert Collins
Ok, a few pragmatic thoughts: * When do we parse it? It's not trivial: - if we parse on startup, and the user changes the cygwin / path during runtime, should we revert to defaults? - if we wait for the / path to be chosen, we can't store any pre- / dialog settings. - if we parse on startup, and