Mail Archives: cygwin-developers/1999/01/07/08:33:21
At 10:27 AM 1/7/99 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>Geoff is in the process of redoing the handling of Cygwin's mount table.
>We're redesigning the layout of the registry but it occurred to me that
>there was a long-running thread in gnu-win32 where people seemed to be
>advocating for a simple /etc/fstab style file.
>
>Does anyone have any opinions on this? Should we drop the registry in
>favor of a file? Obviously there would have to be at least one entry
>denoting where the root was located but should that be it?
>
>-chris
>
If I remember the thread, I believe some consensus was reached that the
registry is not required at all. An assumption could be made that the
/etc/fstab file could be found in a default place (C: I guess) unless
some environment variable pointed to a different location. There are
obviously some fine details to make this all look consistent before and
after the mounts exist but I think that's the flavor of the discussion.
If I have this "synopsis" wrong or the general opinion has changed, feel
free to correct me everyone!
In my opinion, I'm not sure if an environment variable is a more or less
visible way to find the file so I guess either is acceptable to me.
Larry Hall lhall AT rfk DOT com
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