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 Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 12:47:55 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: setup drops mount? Message-ID: <20001113124755.S7424@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20001113173457.2285.qmail@web110.yahoomail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <20001113173457.2285.qmail@web110.yahoomail.com>; from earnie_boyd@yahoo.com on Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 09:34:56AM -0800 On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 09:34:56AM -0800, Earnie Boyd wrote: >--- DJ Delorie wrote: >> >> > D: /var system binmode >> > >> > the last entry is not there anymore when setup finishes. >> >> There are certain key mounts that setup removes always, /var is one of >> them. If you look in install.cc, you'll see the whole list: >> >> remove_mount ("/"); >> remove_mount ("/usr"); >> remove_mount ("/usr/bin"); >> remove_mount ("/usr/lib"); >> remove_mount ("/var"); >> remove_mount ("/lib"); >> remove_mount ("/bin"); >> remove_mount ("/etc"); >> >> create_mount ("/", root_dir, istext, issystem); >> create_mount ("/usr/bin", concat (root_dir, "/bin", 0), istext, issystem); >> create_mount ("/usr/lib", concat (root_dir, "/lib", 0), istext, issystem); >> >> This is done to ensure that the resulting setup works smoothly for all >> users. > >Should we now modify this to conditionally remove these based on whether the >installation is into a new root directory? If I'm updating I would be very >upset to learn that my now mounted /bin directory had been removed. I have it >mounted per CGF's suggestion for cygexec bit switch. Actually, I suppose that setup should set the cygexec bit for /bin and /usr/bin. It's been valid for a number of releases of cygwin. The only problem is that mingw programs like strace.exe won't work correctly, so they have to be "mounted" separately. mount -f -b -x c:\cygwin\bin\strace.exe /bin/strace.exe mount -f -b -x c:\cygwin\bin\strace.exe /usr/bin/strace.exe Not too pretty... Maybe we need another bin directory that holds non-cygwin executables. cygcheck.exe really shouldn't be a cygwin binary so it should go there, too. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com