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Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 07:58:04 -0700 (PDT)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: Deprecating Automount (was Re: Why not mount / at C: ?)
To: Jason Tishler <Jason DOT Tishler AT dothill DOT com>
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--- Jason Tishler <Jason DOT Tishler AT dothill DOT com> wrote:
> 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...
> 

Ok, make it switchable with the default being turned off.  The switch could be
`CYGWIN=... automount ...'.  Here's a scenario for you to try, `cd /cygdrive/c
&& cd ..'.

Cheers,

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   Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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