Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/10/24/11:05:22
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Lemke, Michael IZ/HZA-IOM wrote:
> This is my current mount table:
>
> pc00626> mount -m
> mount -f -s -b "c:/MyStuff/cygwin/bin" "/usr/bin"
> mount -f -s -b "c:/MyStuff/cygwin/lib" "/usr/lib"
> mount -f -s -b "c:/MyStuff/cygwin" "/"
> mount -f -s -t -E "u:" "/u"
> mount -s -b --change-cygdrive-prefix "/"
>
> Note that /u is mounted textmode while the rest is binary. However,
> if I access files on /u they are binmode as well. But when I
> change the mode of the drive prefix to text then /u is also text.
> Seems like prefix is overwriting the explicit setting for /u. If
> the drive prefix is something else but /u is still there then /u
> is not affected by the prefix settings. Is this intended behavior?
Looks like the cygdrive prefix takes precedence over explicit mounts.
This is arguably a bug. <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC>.
Corinna or Chris, care to comment?
Igor
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