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From: lhall AT rfk DOT com (Larry Hall RFK Partners, Inc)
Subject: Re: mount table question
7 Jan 1999 08:33:21 -0800 :
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To: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>, cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com

At 10:27 AM 1/7/99 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>Geoff is in the process of redoing the handling of Cygwin's mount table.
>We're redesigning the layout of the registry but it occurred to me that
>there was a long-running thread in gnu-win32 where people seemed to be
>advocating for a simple /etc/fstab style file.
>
>Does anyone have any opinions on this?  Should we drop the registry in
>favor of a file?  Obviously there would have to be at least one entry
>denoting where the root was located but should that be it?
>
>-chris
>


If I remember the thread, I believe some consensus was reached that the
registry is not required at all.  An assumption could be made that the
/etc/fstab file could be found in a default place (C: I guess) unless 
some environment variable pointed to a different location.  There are 
obviously some fine details to make this all look consistent before and
after the mounts exist but I think that's the flavor of the discussion.
If I have this "synopsis" wrong or the general opinion has changed, feel
free to correct me everyone!

In my opinion, I'm not sure if an environment variable is a more or less 
visible way to find the file so I guess either is acceptable to me.


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