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At 11:51 AM 8/19/2004, you wrote:
>On Aug 19 17:13, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
>> Sigh.  If I were the god of Cygwin, I would have not created textmode
>> mounts at all.  I cannot see the point why it is neccessary to use it.
>
>Full ACK!  Unfortunately the genuine gods of Cygwin have left the project
>already long ago and they probably don't even know anymore what that should
>have been good for.
>


Geoffrey Noer, the Cygwin maintainer before Chris and Corinna, felt that
full compatibility with Windows was a primary goal and POSIX/UNIX 
compatibility was a close second (at least he expressed these views at the 
time he was running the show).  This may have been a common vision held by 
others who brought Cygwin mounts into existence.  I don't remember a time 
when mounts weren't used in Cygwin (I doubt there was such a time ;-) ) but 
I do recall when binary mounts were not the default, so clearly there was a
feeling that text mounts were important at one time in a very real way.  Not that I agree with that view. ;-)

BTW, I'm not bringing this up for any real important reason.  It's largely
trivia but since the topic came up, I thought I'd share my recollections.


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