From:	cgf AT cygnus DOT com (Christopher Faylor)
Subject:	Re: Update/more questions on mount points
25 Sep 1998 05:44:55 -0700 :
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To:	Geoffrey Noer <noer AT cygnus DOT com>, cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com

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.

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