X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:35:02 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: default text mode Message-ID: <20100628113502.GD6310@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4C28834A.9040001@ivu.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <4C28834A.9040001@ivu.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Jun 28 13:11, Jan Lübbe wrote: > Hi, > > after reading > http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ov-new1.7.html#ov-new1.7-file > > >Cygwin creates the mount points for /, /usr/bin, and /usr/lib automatically from it's own position on the disk. They don't have to be specified in /etc/fstab. > > I ask myself how I can force cygwin to mount /, /usr/bin, and > /usr/lib in text mode. Depending on which role does cygwin > automatically choose this decision? Role? The automatism is to use binary mode unless /etc/fstab says something else. Other than that, why would you do that at all? If you need textmode for something, do it under some mount point of your own. There's no good reason to use textmode for the system directories, unless Cygwin is too fast on your machine. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple