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Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 11:05:24 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Magnus Holmgren <magho AT home DOT se>
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: BUG: Mounts to root directories causes setup.exe to crash
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On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Magnus Holmgren wrote:

> Greetings!
>
> The cygwin installer, setup.exe, crashes when trying to install files to
> a directory which has been mounted to the root directory of a drive.
>
> Setup.exe must of course look at the mounts recorded in the registry to
> install files in the correct places. However, when you mount a cygwin
> directory, such as /etc, on the root directory of a partition, like e:\,
> regardless of whether it's done with the command "mount e:\\ /etc", "mount
> e:/ /etc" or "mount e: /etc", only the drive letter and the colon (e:) is
> recorded in the registry. This causes setup.exe to crash when it tries to
> copy files (e.g. to /etc/postinstall). Manually editing the registry,
> adding a backslash after the colon, solves the problem.
>
> I suggest that setup.exe assume that <driveletter>: means <driveletter>:\
> in the registry (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2
> and possibly HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2).
>
> Setup.exe demands that the cygwin root directory, which is asked for on its
> third screen, is absolute, i.e. begins with <driveletter>:\, so that's not a
> problem.
>
> Regards,
> Magnus Holmgren

Shouldn't we also change mount to record the trailing '\' in the registry?
	Igor
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