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 Message-ID: <3BC60B64.5090305@ece.gatech.edu> Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 17:13:08 -0400 From: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010726 Netscape6/6.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: RCUNNINGHAM@redlake.com CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Multiple cygwin installs: I have to do it, but how? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit RCUNNINGHAM@redlake.com wrote: > Heck, all we need to do is place only the root mount point in the registry, > as the name of a key. Everything else can (and should?) be in files within > the associated Cygwin installation, especially including all other mount > points. Ummm...what about multiple users with different mount table entries? Also, have you considered the performance penalties you'd incur by moving mount table entries to a disk-based file? (Or you could cache in memory -- but then how often would you sync the cache with the disk file? When? c.f. mail archives on the many many optimizations concerning /etc/passwd access) --Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/