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From: Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 16:11:27 -0400
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Subject: Re: New version of setup.exe with fixes for i686-pc-cygwin/* problem
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In-Reply-To: <200006082003.VAA31342@murgh.cygnus.co.uk>; from jlarmour@redhat.co.uk on Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 09:03:22PM +0100

On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 09:03:22PM +0100, Jonathan Larmour wrote:
>In article <20000608173106.5178.qmail@web125.yahoomail.com> you write:
>>
>>You need to decide, binmode or textmode.  Operating in both is a major cause
>>for a major headache.
>
>Isn't the point that it depends on the data at that mount point? In the case
>of Windows-y areas, text mode is exactly correct.
>
>Plus textmode is still the default for mount.

Yup.  Good points.

If you know what you're doing, there is no reason not to mix.  I think that
the default "root" mounts like /bin, /lib, and /usr should be binary.  Everything
else can be whatever makes sense.

The problem is that many people use an "identity mount" where c:\ == /.  The
current version of setup.exe mounts root as binary, similarly to the Cygwin CD.

This causes problems who have something like a 'c:\src' directory since it will
automatically be considered to be binmode by default.

DJ has suggested that a future version of cygwin should default to "read text,
write binary".  I think we'll probably be moving to that model sometime soon.

This will essentially provide a third mount option, like "-a".

cgf

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