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Re: Heads-up: postinstall scripts and PATH (Attn all package maintainers)
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 10:36:16AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Feb 24 18:02, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 04:41:08PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>> >I guess --mount-mode, to make it explicit. For a short option, "-M" seems
>> >unused.
>>
>> I thought about that but it's not really only a "mount mode", though.
>> The file may not actually be mounted.
>
>Either the file or directory doesn't exist, or it's eventually mounted
>through its cygpath. And then the mount mode of its cygpath rulez.
But I don't consider cygpath to be "mounted" in the traditional sense.
I've made the executive decision to just call it "mode". It's not called
"mount mode" or "access code" in the documentation. It's just called
"mode".
cgf