Mail Archives: cygwin-developers/1999/01/30/16:39:47
---Christopher Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
However, if the default mode of the automount had been whatever the
mode of / was set to then this message wouldn't have even of been
sent. The flags of /cygdrive/d should be binmode and not textmode
because / is binmode. This will keep the complaints to a minimum.
==
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