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Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 16:55:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To: John Morrison <john DOT r DOT morrison AT ntlworld DOT com>
cc: Shankar Unni <shankar AT cotagesoft DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: mount trouble
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On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, John Morrison wrote:

> AFAIK there's no ability within Cygwin to _write_ to the registry
> (read was added a little while ago), so it would need to be another
> application.

For the record: regtool does both.  See 'regtool --help'.
	Igor

Full message below:
On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, John Morrison wrote:

> > From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com]On Behalf
> > Nicholas Wourms wrote:
> > > --- Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com> wrote:
> > > [SNIP]
> > > mount -f -s -b -X "C:/cygwin/usr/X11R6/bin" "/usr/X11R6/bin"
> > > mount -f -s -b -E "C:/cygwin/usr/X11R6/lib" "/usr/X11R6/lib"
> > > mount -f -s -b -E "C:/cygwin/usr/X11R6/man" "/usr/X11R6/man"
> >
> > Couple of comments on this:
> >
> > * Does the X11 stuff get used so much that this level of fine-grained
> > mount options actually makes a big difference? Why not just default the
> > lot, and create a single mount point for "/usr/X11R6"?
>
> Sorry, I can't answer that, but I only have one X11R6 dir mounted...
>
> C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts type system
> (binmode)
>
> I don't know why... if I removed this mount it would still be in the
> same place.
>
> > * Would it help to add an option to mount to "reset the mounts to
> > installation defaults"? At least for the Cygwin installation drive?
> >
> > That last option would wipe out all mounts for directories under the
> > Cygwin installation directory, and create a clean set of mounts as the
> > installer would have done. It would be invaluable for cleaning up from
> > botched mount experiments..
>
> AFAIK there's no ability within Cygwin to _write_ to the registry
> (read was added a little while ago), so it would need to be another
> application.  I'm also unsure as to where it would find out where it
> it'self was installed, in my case c:\cygwin, unless it used it's own
> path and assumed it was in /bin.
>
> Other than that - good idea :)
>
> J.

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