From: boukanov AT sentef2 DOT fi DOT uib DOT no (Igor Boukanov) Subject: Re: mounts, ls, and filename completion 20 Aug 1998 05:00:04 -0700 Message-ID: References: <35D83934 DOT 96CD430E AT sigma6 DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Jeff Sturm wrote: > Besides that the registry is normal and expected for win32 apps, the > registry provides a convenient way to "boot" the cygwin32 system so it > can find the root directory and remaining configuration files. > > For instance, inetd from inetutils is configured within the inetd.conf > file currently, not in the registry. But before cygwin32 can find > inetd.conf it must load the mount table from somewhere. Since the > location of the root directory depends on the mount table, the > filesystem isn't really a good place to keep the mount table. But you only need to put to the registry a single pointer to win32 directory that has all setup information including mount tables etc. Regards, Igor Boukanov - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".