From: cgf AT bbc DOT com (Christopher Faylor) Subject: Re: cygwin32-b18, coolview, mingw32... (NBY) 5 Feb 1998 05:58:05 -0800 Message-ID: References: <01BD3235 DOT 15147680 AT gater DOT krystalbank DOT msk DOT ru> Reply-To: cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com To: cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com In article <01BD3235 DOT 15147680 AT gater DOT krystalbank DOT msk DOT ru>, Sergey Okhapkin wrote: >Paul At Home. wrote: >>Geoffrey Noer wrote: >>> One question: shouldn't we change things so the default mount table >>> goes into the system-wide location if none exists already? > >> From my point of view - _NO_. It is very convinient >> to have behaviour that is currently implemented >> by you (Sergey). > >Geoffrey, Paul is the person, who asked me about system-wide mount table >feature. I think the same - cygwin.dll should not modify system-wide table, >just read it. Global table should be modified by system administrators and >installers only. I was under the impression that what Geoffrey was essentially suggesting was that the system wide mount table should be set up when cygwin is first installed. Also, is there a mount option to modify the system mount table or will this require manual registry editing? -- http://www.bbc.com/ cgf AT bbc DOT com "Strange how unreal VMS=>UNIX Solutions Boston Business Computing the real can be."