From: cgf AT cygnus DOT com (Christopher Faylor)
Subject: Re: Mount improvements finished
30 Jan 1999 14:53:11 -0800
Message-ID: <19990130174503.A17617.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@cygnus.com>
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To: Kazuhiro Fujieda <fujieda AT jaist DOT ac DOT jp>, Geoffrey Noer <noer AT cygnus DOT com>
Cc: cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com

On Sat, Jan 30, 1999 at 11:18:32PM +0900, Kazuhiro Fujieda wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 27 Jan 1999 14:47:16 -0800
>>>> Geoffrey Noer <noer AT cygnus DOT com> said:
>
>> Any comments are welcome, especially bug reports.
>
>I don't like an automount often overrides flags of a normal
>mount. For example, I mount D:/binary to /binary with binmode.
>
>    ~$ mount
>    Device              Directory           Type         Flags
>    D:\binary           /binary             user         binmode
>    C:                  /                   user         binmode
>
>Then I change the current directory to `d:'.
>
>~ $ cd d:
>/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?  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.

cgf