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Date: | Mon, 24 Apr 2000 13:09:22 -0700 (PDT) |
From: | Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com> |
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Subject: | Re: How to change "/" from textmode to binmode? |
To: | Bob McGowan <rmcgowan AT veritas DOT com> |
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--- Bob McGowan <rmcgowan AT veritas DOT com> wrote: -8<- > > In an earlier response to the original question, Chris Faylor suggested > using 'mount -?' to get descriptions of options and that one of these > should help. So I was trying out mount with different options, in > different ways, and came up with a new issue. > > It appears that I can create an environment where / is mounted on 2 > different locations, one stored at the system level and one at the > user. It would seem to me to make sense that 'mount' should not allow > duplicates of system level mount points at the user level. Is this a > valid conclusion? > I don't think your conclusion is valid, IMNSHO. I think the User MPT (mount point table) should override the System MPT. That way the user can do what he likes while providing a consistent default. I believe that this was the purpose given to the innovation. ===== --- Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com> __Cygwin: POSIX on Windows__ Cygwin Newbies: <http://www.freeyellow.com/members5/gw32/index.html> __Minimalist GNU for Windows__ Mingw32 List: <http://www.egroups.com/group/mingw32/> Mingw Home: <http://www.mingw.org/> __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
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