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Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 15:58:45 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: mount of route directory,injustice
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In-Reply-To: <3A5E18FA.35842389@yahoo.com>; from earnie_boyd@yahoo.com on Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 03:35:06PM -0500

On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 03:35:06PM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> 
>> On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 11:46:53AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> > On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 08:26:35AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> > >For your information: If the first application loads cygwin1.dll
>> > >it checks for the existence of a root directory in the registry.
>> > >If it doesn't find one, it adds it as C: == / into HKCU.
>> >
>> > Actually, cygwin shouldn't do this anymore.  I believe that Kazuhiro
>> > Fujieda modified cygwin to avoid doing this since a while ago.
>> >
>> > It did do this in the Cygwin 1.0 days, though, so you're right that
>> > this may be what happened here.
>> 
>> He is using 1.0
>
>IIRC, the multiple entries for root was a bug in 1.0 upon setup or
>perhaps initial execution.

Yep.  I'd forgotten about this bug.

cgf

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