From: norm AT comanche DOT dyn DOT ml DOT org (Norm Peterson)
Subject: Re: Feedback needed on proposed cygwin feature
1 Dec 1997 15:50:33 -0800
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On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Chris Faylor wrote:

> The available options are:
> 
> 	[no]binmode		- Set default open mode
> 	[no]title		- Display program names on the console
> 				  title bar
> 	[no]glob		- [Do not] interpret wild cards on commands
> 				  run from CMD.
> 	[no]strip_title		- [Do not] strip the path component of files
> 				  names displayed in the title bar
> 	[no]tty			- Attach a UNIX-style tty to the program

How about adding one more entry for the root dir?  This would help with
the chroot() problems.  If the registry key (or env variable, or whatever)
is set, use it's value as the root dir.  Otherwise use the global mount as
usual.



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