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: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 13:05:17 -0700 From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: textmount/binmount issue Message-ID: <20051024200517.GA1952@efn.org> References: <3E1FDC960FE04A4E96892B9023622A4E046B4761@de010369.de.ina.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-IsSubscribed: yes On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 11:05:13AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Lemke, Michael IZ/HZA-IOM wrote: > > > This is my current mount table: > > > > pc00626> mount -m > > mount -f -s -b "c:/MyStuff/cygwin/bin" "/usr/bin" > > mount -f -s -b "c:/MyStuff/cygwin/lib" "/usr/lib" > > mount -f -s -b "c:/MyStuff/cygwin" "/" > > mount -f -s -t -E "u:" "/u" > > mount -s -b --change-cygdrive-prefix "/" > > > > Note that /u is mounted textmode while the rest is binary. However, > > if I access files on /u they are binmode as well. But when I > > change the mode of the drive prefix to text then /u is also text. > > Seems like prefix is overwriting the explicit setting for /u. If > > the drive prefix is something else but /u is still there then /u > > is not affected by the prefix settings. Is this intended behavior? > > Looks like the cygdrive prefix takes precedence over explicit mounts. > This is arguably a bug. . > Corinna or Chris, care to comment? My name doesn't start with C, but I will comment that if the precedence went the other way, a mount like: mount c:/foo /cygdrive/d would make a windows path d:\bar have no posix translation. -- 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/