Mail Archives: cygwin-developers/1998/02/04/21:32:33
In article <199802050039 DOT QAA04540 AT skaro DOT cygnus DOT com>,
Geoffrey Noer <cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com> wrote:
>Sergey asked me:
>> Some time ago I sent you a patch to create a system-wide mount table,
>> inherrittabe by all users. This table is stored in HKLM instead of HKCU. No
>> any answer from you about...
>
>I was waiting on it while we got signal handling working so I just
>took another look. It seems like the right thing to be doing so
>I'm going to commit it to the current sources.
>
>One question: shouldn't we change things so the default mount table
>goes into the system-wide location if none exists already?
I think that makes sense.
In a similar vein, is it too late for the environment variable stuff
that I sent you? The patch added the ability to control default open
mode (binary/textmode) and to control whether file globbing was invoked
with CYGWIN_BINMODE and CYGWIN_[NO]GLOB environment variables. It also
consolidated stuff, preparing for possible setting of options from the
registry. I assume that it is too late for anything like registry
options.
Also, the consensus on the mailing list was for a CYGWIN32 environment
variable with settable options rather than a CYGWIN_TTY, CYGWIN_TITLE,
etc. That's easily doable with my environ patch but is it too late
for this kind of change?
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