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Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 19:51:20 -0800
From: Geoffrey Noer <noer AT cygnus DOT com>
To: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Cc: cygwin users <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject: Re: Help with installing
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In-Reply-To: <19990329203946.15996.rocketmail@web125.yahoomail.com>; from Earnie Boyd on Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 12:39:46PM -0800

On Mon, Mar 29, 1999, Earnie Boyd wrote:
[...]
> Basically, because _I_ have to.  At some point there was added a set of keys for
> the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE to control the defaults for the local machine and this
> would allow consistency between multiple users while allowing each user to
> control his set of keys via HKEY_CURRENT_USER.  After this was added, I wasn't
> able to use the `umount / && mount Z:\\ /' methods (in any combination of
> commands) to change the mount point for root while a member of the administrator
> group.
> 
> NOTE: I haven't tried this with the current snapshots.  It may very well be
> fixed already.

I have tested remounting slash with the current cygwin DLL snapshots
and a new mount.exe binary.  If you try to replace an existing mount
(like slash), you will get the existing mount busy warning.  By
specifying the -f flag (force), mount will happily overwrite any
existing mount point, including slash.

Again, only in recent development snapshots.

-- 
Geoffrey Noer		Email: noer AT cygnus DOT com
Cygnus Solutions

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