From: dj AT delorie DOT com (DJ Delorie)
Subject: Re: Mount improvements finished
30 Jan 1999 16:23:12 -0800
Message-ID: <199901310020.TAA05286.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@envy.delorie.com>
References: <19990130174503 DOT A17617 AT cygnus DOT com>
To: cgf AT cygnus DOT com
Cc: fujieda AT jaist DOT ac DOT jp, noer AT cygnus DOT com, cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com


> >/cygdrive/d $ mount
> >Device              Directory           Type         Flags
> >d:                  /cygdrive/d         user,auto    textmode
> >D:\binary           /binary             user         binmode
> >C:                  /                   user         binmode
> >
> >Now /binary is handled with textmode !!
> 
> Why do you come to the conclusion that files created in /binary will be
> handled with text mode?

Because path.cc will see the d:->/cygdrive/d entry before the
D:\binary->/binary entry, so paths will be translated via that entry
and get the textmode flag.

> Have you actually observed this behavior?  If so, that's a bug.
> What the above mount table should say is that any files created in
> the root of the D: drive will be created using text mode.

What it should say is that any files on D:, except for those in
D:\binary, should be textmode.  I think this is a sorting problem in
path.cc.