From: sarnold AT coyote DOT rain DOT org (Stephen L Arnold)
Subject: Re: mounts, ls, and filename completion
20 Aug 1998 12:37:20 -0700
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On 17 Aug 98, Earnie Boyd had questions about Re: mounts, ls, and 
filename completion:

> I agree with David.  Get rid of the registry data and use the standard
> UNIX filesystem format.  I would also like to see the cygwin32 have an
> external _fmode variable that could be set within the source to determine
> the default file mode similar to crtdll.
> 
> 
> ---CyberJack <cyber AT cbj DOT net> wrote:
> >
> > Why is it using the registry to store anything? Shouldn't we gear this
> > toward a normal standard filesystem format.

How about just documenting the behavior of the mount command?  I 
didn't guess it was storing the mount points (permanently) there 
until I searched the list archive and stumbled across it.  Just a 
thought...

Steve


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