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Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 11:02:52 -0700
From: Brian Dessent <brian@dessent.net>
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Subject: Re: Bug:  Setup tool doesn't respect managed mountpoints/filesystems
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Mark Paulus wrote:

> So, it appears that the installer is respecting the mount point, but
> it isn't respecting the managed attribute of the filesystem/mountpoint.

setup.exe itself is not a Cygwin program (does not use cygwin1.dll) and
has no idea what a managed mount is.  You will have to limit use of
managed mounts to paths that setup does not use, until such time as
somebody contributes a patch that reimplements the name mangling code in
setup.

Brian

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