Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 00:10:50 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: New setup uploaded - 2.218.2.8 Message-ID: <20020516041050.GB24615@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 09:18:05AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote: > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Cliff Hones [mailto:cliff AT aonix DOT co DOT uk] >> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 1:51 AM >> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com >> Subject: Re: New setup uploaded - 2.218.2.8 >> >> >> > Should this behavior of setup.exe's searching the directory >> tree below >> > the '/' mount point be documented, or should it be changed? >> >> Changed, please - or at least setup should run some sort of >> sanity check on the files it finds before trying to parse them. > >There is a sanity check. It's called parsing the file. If the file is >called setup.ini, setup *will* try to parse it. It shouldn't parse >non-setup.ini files anymore (thanks Chris). By that Robert means that files named "setup.ini.sav" will no longer be parsed. Just files who exactly match setup.ini. Or, er, there may still be one bug lurking which causes something like foosetup.ini to be matched in some cases but that should be fixed soon. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/