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Re: Checked in first phase of mount table awareness for setup.exe
- To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: Checked in first phase of mount table awareness for setup.exe
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 21:51:33 -0400
- References: <20010510214421.A21810@redhat.com>
- Reply-To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 09:44:21PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>I checked in a first round of changes for setup.exe. I stole some code
>for scanning the mount table from cygwin, of course.
>
>I'm sure that there are assumptions that need to be revisited but it
>seems to work ok now.
>
>I believe that it will currently reset all existing paths to be the same
>binmode/textmode as root but I haven't checked for sure.
Sorry. I don't mean all existing paths. I mean that any mount table entry
that setup.exe cares about will be reset to the same mode as root. I think.
cgf