Mail Archives: cygwin-developers/1998/09/25/08:44:38
Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 24, 1998 at 06:36:52PM -0700, Geoffrey Noer wrote:
> >A final issue is that non of us here particularly like the way that
> >the DLL auto-creates mount points on loading, especially for the four
> >raw devices fd0, fd1, st0, st1. Instead, we are thinking that perhaps
> >this should be done at install time. Or the user should add them
> >themselves. With these gone, the only purpose of mount_init is to
> >verify that there's a slash mount. I don't suppose there's a way we
> >could go without this too? (And have Cygwin create the default slash
> >mount when it is first requested, similarly to how new drive letters
> >would be handled as described above?).
> >
> >Thoughts?
>
> I know you have already heard my thoughts on this but I just wanted to
> point out that there is no reason to mount these at all. They are already
> handled internally by cygwin, for the most part. The only reason to mount
> them would be to change their binmode attributes.
Only automount /.
No pseudopath for any other partition.
The device names /dev/fd[01], /dev/st[01] should not automatically be
used, because everyone should be able to name the devices as she
likes. The changes I've made contains the code to make it possible.
Moreover, on one hand norewind tapes are ignored in the actual
solution, on the other hand, as compensation, everyone has mount
entries for nonexistant devices, e.g. second floppy or tape drive.
The static internal handling of UNIX-like device names is
unnecessary and inflexible, I think.
Corinna
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