Mount table in registry

[Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)]

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Thu, 22 May 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 04:12:37PM +0200, Sebastian Miele wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>the user documentation on the mount table
>>>(http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#MOUNT-TABLE) says that the
>>>mount table is located under:
>>>
>>>  HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Red Hat, Inc./Cygwin/mounts v<version>
>>>
>>>However, on my system it is located under:
>>>
>>>  HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Cygnus Solutions/Cygwin/mounts v2
>>>
>>>Most probably the documentation has not been updated, yet.
>>>
>>>How likely is it that either the version (2) or the company (Red Hat,
>>>Inc./Cygnus Solutions) changes in the future?
>>
>>100%
>>
>>Use mount.  Never rely on the registry.
>>Corinna
> 
> 
> Corinna and others,
> 
> This is becoming an FAQ, so I'm going to feel the waters here...  Would
> making a libmount.a (or, better yet, cygmount.dll) be a good idea?  Then
> programs can link against it and be guaranteed that they can read mounts
> or verify mount locations.  I know Cygwin exports getmntent() and the
> like, but the above would be something that doesn't depend on cygwin1.dll.
> Setup.exe could then use it as well (although then it'd have to be a
> static lib).  Comments, flames?


This is outrageuos!  What right do you have to suggest such a thing?
You should be boiled in oil!!!

OK, so I started with a flame.  Now I'll comment. ;-)

Seems like a fine idea to me.  IIRC, there have been similar suggestions
in the past, mostly surrounding the needs of setup.  But there's no
reason such a library couldn't support a wider range of apps.


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