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Subject: RE: Multiple installations and 3PPs
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 13:56:15 +0100
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Chris January wrote on Friday, January 21, 2005 12:04 PM:

>> Well, it was proposed once already, but nobody did the work:
>> 
>> Get rid of the registry entries completly. Cygwin could use
>> something similar to /etc/fstab to manage its mount modes.
> 
> And how do you know where / is mounted?

If you don't want to assume that /etc is a parallel directory to /bin, where you've loaded cygwin1.dll from, you can also
provide this configuration file directly at the location of the cygwin1.dll. This would also enable a mounted /etc.

- Jörg

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