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Re: mounts, ls, and filename completion
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: mounts, ls, and filename completion
- From: "Stephen L Arnold" <sarnold at coyote dot rain dot org>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 18:46:56 -0700
- Organization: Huh?
- Reply-to: sarnold at earthling dot net
On 17 Aug 98, Earnie Boyd had questions about Re: mounts, ls, and
filename completion:
> I agree with David. Get rid of the registry data and use the standard
> UNIX filesystem format. I would also like to see the cygwin32 have an
> external _fmode variable that could be set within the source to determine
> the default file mode similar to crtdll.
>
>
> ---CyberJack <cyber@cbj.net> wrote:
> >
> > Why is it using the registry to store anything? Shouldn't we gear this
> > toward a normal standard filesystem format.
How about just documenting the behavior of the mount command? I
didn't guess it was storing the mount points (permanently) there
until I searched the list archive and stumbled across it. Just a
thought...
Steve
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