From:	boukanov AT sentef2 DOT fi DOT uib DOT no (Igor Boukanov)
Subject:	Re: mounts, ls, and filename completion
20 Aug 1998 05:00:04 -0700 :
Message-ID:	<Pine.HPP.3.96.980819110036.6368B-100000.cygnus.gnu-win32@sentef2.fi.uib.no>
References:	<35D83934 DOT 96CD430E AT sigma6 DOT com>
Mime-Version:	1.0
To:	gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Jeff Sturm wrote:

> Besides that the registry is normal and expected for win32 apps, the
> registry provides a convenient way to "boot" the cygwin32 system so it
> can find the root directory and remaining configuration files.
> 
> For instance, inetd from inetutils is configured within the inetd.conf
> file currently, not in the registry.  But before cygwin32 can find
> inetd.conf it must load the mount table from somewhere.  Since the
> location of the root directory depends on the mount table, the
> filesystem isn't really a good place to keep the mount table.
But you only need to put to the registry a single pointer to win32
directory that has all setup information including mount tables etc. 

Regards, Igor Boukanov

-
For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to
"gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".

- Raw text -