Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: Default mounts : one redundant? Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 18:08:20 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.5762.3 content-class: urn:content-classes:message From: "Robert Collins" To: "Bernard Dautrevaux" , Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id g4F8LpB19525 > -----Original Message----- > From: Bernard Dautrevaux [mailto:Dautrevaux@microprocess.com] > Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 6:01 PM > To: Robert Collins; Bernard Dautrevaux; cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: RE: Default mounts : one redundant? > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Robert Collins [mailto:robert.collins@itdomain.com.au] > > Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 9:50 AM > > To: Bernard Dautrevaux; cygwin@cygwin.com > > Subject: RE: Default mounts : one redundant? > > > > > > This is off-topic, it belongs on cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com. And > > the answer > > is in that lists archives. > > OK so if I understand correctly, the redundant mount here is > effectively useless, as the "/" mount is done in binary mode, > but is created by the cygwin-Xfree post-install script > because "/" may be mounted in text mode. > > My question was just motivated by the fact the mount option > were identical; I ask it here because this is in fact a > general cygwin topic: if I *need* something to be accessed in > binary mode (and don't want to look at all refering programs) > I must mount the tree binary, even if the mount may be, in > some cases, redundant. > > And that is not, IMNSHO, off-topic. Asking about a particular mount point made by the X install script is off topic. Asking about strategies for dealing with mount points is on topic. It was not obvious that you where doing the latter. And actually, mounting in binary does not ensure binary access. It just means that non-text/bin aware programs will default to binary. Rob -- 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/