Mail Archives: cygwin-developers/1999/01/30/14:53:11
On Sat, Jan 30, 1999 at 11:18:32PM +0900, Kazuhiro Fujieda wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 27 Jan 1999 14:47:16 -0800
>>>> Geoffrey Noer <noer AT cygnus DOT com> said:
>
>> Any comments are welcome, especially bug reports.
>
>I don't like an automount often overrides flags of a normal
>mount. For example, I mount D:/binary to /binary with binmode.
>
> ~$ mount
> Device Directory Type Flags
> D:\binary /binary user binmode
> C: / user binmode
>
>Then I change the current directory to `d:'.
>
>~ $ cd d:
>/cygdrive/d $ mount
>Device Directory Type Flags
>d: /cygdrive/d user,auto textmode
>D:\binary /binary user binmode
>C: / user binmode
>
>Now /binary is handled with textmode !!
Why do you come to the conclusion that files created in /binary will be
handled with text mode? Have you actually observed this behavior? If
so, that's a bug. What the above mount table should say is that any
files created in the root of the D: drive will be created using text
mode.
cgf
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