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 X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 11:12:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Mount table in registry In-Reply-To: <20030522142614.GN19367@cygbert.vinschen.de> Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Thu, 22 May 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 04:12:37PM +0200, Sebastian Miele wrote: > > Hi, > > > > the user documentation on the mount table > > (http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#MOUNT-TABLE) says that the > > mount table is located under: > > > > HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Red Hat, Inc./Cygwin/mounts v > > > > However, on my system it is located under: > > > > HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Cygnus Solutions/Cygwin/mounts v2 > > > > Most probably the documentation has not been updated, yet. > > > > How likely is it that either the version (2) or the company (Red Hat, > > Inc./Cygnus Solutions) changes in the future? > > 100% > > Use mount. Never rely on the registry. > Corinna Corinna and others, This is becoming an FAQ, so I'm going to feel the waters here... Would making a libmount.a (or, better yet, cygmount.dll) be a good idea? Then programs can link against it and be guaranteed that they can read mounts or verify mount locations. I know Cygwin exports getmntent() and the like, but the above would be something that doesn't depend on cygwin1.dll. Setup.exe could then use it as well (although then it'd have to be a static lib). Comments, flames? Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/