Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/08/19/15:09:15
At 11:51 AM 8/19/2004, you wrote:
>On Aug 19 17:13, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
>> Sigh. If I were the god of Cygwin, I would have not created textmode
>> mounts at all. I cannot see the point why it is neccessary to use it.
>
>Full ACK! Unfortunately the genuine gods of Cygwin have left the project
>already long ago and they probably don't even know anymore what that should
>have been good for.
>
Geoffrey Noer, the Cygwin maintainer before Chris and Corinna, felt that
full compatibility with Windows was a primary goal and POSIX/UNIX
compatibility was a close second (at least he expressed these views at the
time he was running the show). This may have been a common vision held by
others who brought Cygwin mounts into existence. I don't remember a time
when mounts weren't used in Cygwin (I doubt there was such a time ;-) ) but
I do recall when binary mounts were not the default, so clearly there was a
feeling that text mounts were important at one time in a very real way. Not that I agree with that view. ;-)
BTW, I'm not bringing this up for any real important reason. It's largely
trivia but since the topic came up, I thought I'd share my recollections.
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