From: sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject: RE: Update/more questions on mount points
24 Sep 1998 23:17:29 -0700
Message-ID: <01BDE86B.6BE7F3F0.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@sos>
To: "cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com" <cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com>,
        "'Geoffrey Noer'" <noer AT cygnus DOT com>

Geoffrey Noer wrote:
> I'm currently thinking that we should detect the inability to
> translate a particular path from Win32 to POSIX.  Cygwin would then
> create a mount point on the fly for the drive letter in question.  So
> Q: would be added to the HKEY_LOCAL_USER mount table as /q or /mnt/q
> (whichever makes more sense) and then that mount point would be used
> for that and future translations involving that drive letter.  Of
> course, the user could always opt to remove it and put in a different
> mapping later if they so choose.

Installer should create /q or /mnt/q in the global mount table for all local drives. The same for /dev/fdX, /dev/stX etc.

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Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia