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Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 00:11:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: David Condon <dcondon AT apk DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Setting cygdrive prefix to '/' causes disappearing mounts
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On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Chris Faylor wrote:

> I asked Corinna to look into this as soon as she has some time.

Because she maintains the sshd port? Uhh, no. This report has nothing to
do with sshd per se. I simply used that as an example showing that as long
as _any_ program that loads the Cygwin DLL is still running, the mounts
remain. Quit the program and all other Cygwin programs, and the mounts
remain (as verified by checking for the keys in the registry). Start up any
Cygwin program, and now the registry keys instantly get erased (you can
watch it happen in real time by simply keeping the registry editor open and
refreshing it immediately after executing any Cygwin program)

> >This problem was apparently caused, at least in my case, by setting either a
> >user or system /cydrive prefix to '/'. It is 100% reproducible, and especially
> >interesting that even when only a user /cygdrive prefix is set to '/', all
> >system mounts will disappear. Now that I have a little better understanding
> >of how the cygdrive prefix works, I can see that there is really no good
> >reason to change it to '/' anyway. However, the User Guide uses this exact
> >command as an example (3.11, "Changing the default prefix") in the section
> >on "mount". It seems that it would be appropriate to change that to anything
> >other than '/' and add a warning that setting it to '/' causes the mount
> >table to be cleared.

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