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Mail Archives: cygwin-developers/1998/02/05/02:02:23

From: sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject: RE: cygwin32-b18, coolview, mingw32... (NBY)
5 Feb 1998 02:02:23 -0800 :
Message-ID: <01BD3235.15147680.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@gater.krystalbank.msk.ru>
Reply-To: cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com
To: "'Paul At Home.'" <pault AT corbina DOT ru>
Cc: "'cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com'" <cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com>

Paul At Home. wrote:
>Geoffrey Noer wrote:
>> One question: shouldn't we change things so the default mount table
>> goes into the system-wide location if none exists already?

>      From my point of view - _NO_.  It is very convinient
>      to have behaviour that is currently implemented
>      by you (Sergey).

Geoffrey, Paul is the person, who asked me about system-wide mount table 
feature. I think the same - cygwin.dll should not modify system-wide table, 
just read it. Global table should be modified by system administrators and 
installers only.

--
Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia
Looking for a job.


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