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Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 08:57:50 -0400
From: Jason Tishler <Jason DOT Tishler AT dothill DOT com>
To: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Cc: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Deprecating Automount (was Re: Why not mount / at C: ?)
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In-Reply-To: <20000824115435.26205.qmail@web108.yahoomail.com>; from earnie_boyd@yahoo.com on Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 04:54:35AM -0700
Organization: Dot Hill Systems Corp.

Earnie,

On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 04:54:35AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> I'm beginning to think that it would be best to not support unmounted drives
> in the Cygwin environment.  It gets far to confusing and there are solutions
> around not having the support.  Saying this, IMO, we should deprecate the
> unmounted drives support.  What do you think?

Sorry but I disagree.  I think that the automount feature is very
useful and should not be deprecated.  For example, I really like being
able to access a mounted share as /cygdrive/X (where X is the associated
drive letter) and my floppy drive as /cygdrive/A without cluttering up my
mount table.

However, I must admit that I'm biased since I contributed a patch to
enhance Cygwin's automount feature...

Jason

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