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Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 00:54:35 +0100
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Subject: Re: Hello again
From: jlarmour AT redhat DOT co DOT uk (Jonathan Larmour)
Newsgroups: cygnus.gnu-win32
In-Reply-To: <1DB8BA4BAC88D3118B2300508B5A552CD9262B@mail.fitlinxx.com>
Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd.

In article <1DB8BA4BAC88D3118B2300508B5A552CD9262B AT mail DOT fitlinxx DOT com> you write:
>
>The default installation creates the mount points in the user hive (HKCU),
>so they aren't available to other users.  When starting without any mount
>information, I believe Cygwin will default to / == C:\.  You can either just
>create the same mount points for the new user (mount also defaults to HKCU),
>or alternatively, move the mount points to the system hive (HKLM) by using
>the "-s" option, at which point they will be available to all users.

I can't help but think that if the user running setup has the appropriate
admin privileges, setup should ask if the default mount points should be
system ones. If possible, system mount points should be the default for
those mounts.

I know, I know, send a patch...

Jifl
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