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 Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 08:59:21 -0400 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: sharing hd partition betw Linux and Cygwin Message-ID: <20030605125921.GA7542@ny-kenton2a-710.buf.adelphia.net> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20030602200411.GB5897@ny-kenton2a-710.buf.adelphia.net> <20030602224207.GB7398@ny-kenton2a-710.buf.adelphia.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i From: somian@adelphia.net (Soren Andersen) On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 09:54:16AM -0700, Shankar Unni wrote: > Soren Andersen wrote: > > >Now sharing the drive space between the cvs tool (and cpan, too!) works, > >I think (haven't actually tried cvs yet but had to work on cpan a few > >minutes ago, and discovered it was suffering from the same difficulty). > I'd be amazed if this all works seamlessly. Nevertheless, remember that > CVS on cygwin is only supported with binary-mounted filesystems. If > your default cygdrive mount is text (i.e. you installed Cygwin with "DOS > line endings"), be sure to create a fresh binary mount for your CVS > repository and use that as your CVSROOT. Thanks for the tip, Shankar. I've always had all my mounts in binmode by default so this shouldn't be an issue. -- See my OpenPGP key at https://savannah.gnu.org/people/viewgpg.php?user_id=6050 GnuPG public key fingerprint | "Only when efforts to reform society have as BD26 A5D8 D781 C96B 9936 | their point of departure the reformation of 310F 0573 A3D9 4E24 4EA6 | the inner life -- human revolution -- will they lead us with certainty to a world of lasting peace and true human security." -- Daisaku Ikeda -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/