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: New setup uploaded - 2.218.2.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 09:18:05 +1000 Message-ID: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.5762.3 content-class: urn:content-classes:message X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Robert Collins" To: "Cliff Hones" , Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id g4FNIRN10939 > -----Original Message----- > From: Cliff Hones [mailto:cliff@aonix.co.uk] > Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 1:51 AM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: New setup uploaded - 2.218.2.8 > > > > Should this behavior of setup.exe's searching the directory > tree below > > the '/' mount point be documented, or should it be changed? > > Changed, please - or at least setup should run some sort of > sanity check on the files it finds before trying to parse them. There is a sanity check. It's called parsing the file. If the file is called setup.ini, setup *will* try to parse it. It shouldn't parse non-setup.ini files anymore (thanks Chris). 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/