Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 12:33:58 +0200 From: Paul Sokolovsky X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.00 Christmas Preview) UNREG Reply-To: Paul Sokolovsky Message-ID: <19523.990226@is.lg.ua> To: Corinna Vinschen CC: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Subject: Re[2]: Total lack of accurate documentation! References: <36D5C60C DOT 5886E53C AT cityweb DOT de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello Corinna, Corinna Vinschen wrote: CV> Paul Sokolovsky wrote: >> [...] >> Something like that I had, little more worse, though. >> I solved it globally (after consulting to maillist and being told >> those are 'features' of cygwin) - unmount all except root. >> Replace in registry '/' mount point from drive where >> windows installed to drive where cygwin itself installed (it's another >> cygwin feature). Make /tmp on that drive. Keep youself within that >> drive. Use //cygdrive/ syntax to access other drives (search list >> archive for more info). Forget forever about one of the MOST NICE >> and USEFUL features of cygwin. CV> Why do you tell this? CV> Nothing of this, what you are telling is really necessary! I'm using cygwin CV> mount points on many computers with many windows partitions and it works fine! CV> You are not obliged to use REGEDIT, to change the root mount! Try CV> umount / CV> mount [-bf] X: / CV> and you will see: This works, too! CV> So, too, it's definitly unnecessary, to use a //cygdrive style syntax! CV> Many nice features of cygwin are working as expected, some others have errors CV> in it, but less than windows itself! Some code also workarounds windows shit! CV> As a result, IMHO, your last sentence is a insolence! Let me explain my path with b20. I get it, saw that it works better (mostly faster) that b18, last (and very first) I looked at and get angry at. I subscribed to cygwin-devel to see if I could get more knowledge about cygwin ideology and was going to install sources. That problem with mount-tables I get while installing it. Very funny, yeah? I tried to lisp something about it that mail-list, but Christopher Faylor explained me that indeed everything ok with it, no point to worry. During mail-list change I get dropped from cygwin-devel and resubscribed now here, as more appropriate place for screaming. So, why I wrote that? Because it's a _solution_. It's ok for mount-tables here when they needed and even when not needed, but not noticable. But when they bring chaos into my file system, I don't think that's too cruel to turn it off, even by tearing. I tried to tell that it won't be to groundless to let user have control over default mounts during install, or at least notify about default bindings. But I hasn't get understanding for this, it's something like one telling "I had problems, so and so probably unright, other may come to this, too", and gets answer "No, everything's fine, noone ever complains". He sure looks like idiot and constrained to act like. But just see - there really are cases very familiar. And ones again - I wrote that not to get cygwin developers, but because I care about cygwin. Probably, care with other internal motivation and external representation. Hope, you'll notify me about twitting me, instead of leaving it in silence. CV> Corinna Best regards, Paul mailto:paul-ml AT is DOT lg DOT ua -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com