From: rdparker AT butlermfg DOT org (Parker, Ron)
Subject: RE: Update/more questions on mount points
25 Sep 1998 09:00:38 -0700
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To: Geoffrey Noer <noer AT cygnus DOT com>, cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com

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> 1) Should mount ask the user whether they want the directory created
>    for them?  (Tempted to just print a warning and keep mount
>    non-interactive).

Just prompt.

> 2) Should mount have a flag that would make it scan the mount
>    tables and create all missing mount-point directories?

Yes.

> 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.

I'm inclined to agree with Andrew on this on.  Make it temporary.  Also,
temporary mount points might be a solution for chroot.

I'm beginning to think that the most universally satisfactory solution
for mount points, might be to have opendir and its related functions
insert the mount points into their output.  This would be done only for
nonexistent mount points and any nonexistent parent directories.  We
could also add /dev/* to the content that would be inserted into the
output of these functions.

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