RE: Vanishing mounts

[Bernard Dautrevaux <DAUTREVAUX at microprocess dot com>]

Title: RE: Vanishing mounts

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 1999 2:48 AM
> To: pof@uvic.ca; cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: RE: Vanishing mounts
>
>
> --- pof@uvic.ca wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I've been noticing for some time now that mounts seem
> > > to be spontaneously unmounting themselves.  There doesn't
> > > seem to be any rhyme or reason to when this event occurs.
> > > Maybe after rebooting, maybe not, etc.  I've noticed this
> > > ever since updating to b20.1 last January.  It happens on
> > > NT v4.0 sp3&sp4 and win95 boxes as well.  Both I and several
> > > friends who use this release have all independently noticed
> > > this behavior.  I guess under cygwin, this is akin to a
> > > registry entry spontaneously disappearing.
> >
> > I have a similar problem: my binary mounts will spontaneously
> > become text mounts.  I'm pretty sure that this problem
> > plagued me on earlier releases too.  It has become
> > annoying enough that I finally kluged my rclock (from the
> > rxvt package) to check my mounts every 10 minutes (instead
> > of checking my mail) and signal an alarm if they are
> > text rather than binary.
> >
> > I would welcome a "real" solution the the problem...
>
> Hmm. I wonder if you have anything in the
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus
> Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts registry entries? 
> This was meant to be
> a default which would be setup by Admin and provide a new
> user with default
> mounts.  I remember this happened to me and clearing the
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
> registry stopped the event from occuring.

Do that mean that you advise us to clear the whole HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts tree, or just verify that the keys there (00 01 02 ... 1B 1C 1D - the 30 of them) have undefined values?

Regards,

                Bernard

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