Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: Chris Faylor Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 17:36:25 -0400 To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Setting cygdrive prefix to '/' causes disappearing mounts Message-ID: <20000917173625.A25898@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com References: <20000915232050.A8958@cygnus.com> <20000916002450.A9313@cygnus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.6i In-Reply-To: ; from fujieda@jaist.ac.jp on Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 05:11:28AM +0900 On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 05:11:28AM +0900, Kazuhiro Fujieda wrote: >>>> On Sat, 16 Sep 2000 00:24:50 -0400 >>>> Chris Faylor said: > >> She's also probably the most recent person, excluding me, to look at the >> mount code. Hmm... with the possible exception of Kazuhiro Fujieda and >> Jason Tishler. > >I know the cause of this problem. `mount_info::read_mounts' can >delete all registry keys of which names include the current >cygdrive prefix. When I rewrited the mount code sometime ago, >I noticed this logic and preserved it. > >The mount code doesn't allow mount entries under the cygdrive >prefix at all. But it let us change the cygdrive prefix into a >parent directory of existing mount entries. After that, it >rejects them. > >We have two alternatives to solve this problem. >1. Allow mount entries under the cygdrive prefix. Is that to disallow remounting /cygdrive/a as something besides a:? That doesn't seem worth it, IMO. >2. Keep the cygdrive prefix away from parent directories of > existing mount entries. > >I can't find possible problems triggered by the former solution. >The latter solution won't let us change the cygdrive prefix into '/'. I think that the 1. is fine, if you're willing to change it. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com