From:	noer AT cygnus DOT com (Geoffrey Noer)
Subject:	Re: Answer to your text == binary question
22 Jan 1999 00:24:35 -0800 :
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To:	Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Cc:	cygwin developers <cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com>

On Thu, Jan 21, 1999, Earnie Boyd wrote:
[...]
> IMHO, default mode of automounts should be based on the mode of the
> root `/' directory.  If the mount table doesn't exist at all then the
> default should still be text.

That's certainly a possible strategy.

A connected issue is that slash is still automounted if it hasn't
already been.  I've heard at least one person say that we should
probably stop automounting slash but I'm not sure that's wise?

-- 
Geoffrey Noer
noer AT cygnus DOT com

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