Mail Archives: cygwin-developers/1999/01/22/11:24:39
At 12:48 PM 1/22/99 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 11:53:09AM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
>>OK, I think my concern was that the "automount" would happen
>>"on-the-fly" in certain cases (something similar to when the user
>>addresses a partition with the current "drive" syntax of "//<drive>/").
>>In these cases, it may not be possible to change the mode before the
>>user performs the desired operation (at least for the first one). For
>>example, the user can currently do something like "cp //d/foo ." My
>>understanding of what Geoffrey was saying is that this will change to
>>"cp d:/foo ." (or something similar... I lost his original message
>>now!:-() with a mount being created for d:/ in /cygdrive.
>
>This changes the binmode type for all auto-mounted drives:
>
> mount -b --change-automount-root /cygdrive
>
>If you don't do this, the default is text-mode.
>
>>If this is the case, there needs to be a way to specify the user's
>>default preference for the mode of this mount so that even the "cp"
>>command gets it right. If after the fact, the mount still exists (and
>>it sounds like it would), it would then be possible to change the mode
>>for subsequent uses but this is both cumbersome and, more importantly,
>>doesn't help the "cp". Reading through your responses, I was struck by
>>the idea that you were suggesting that the things mounted under the
>>"automount" root would assume the mode of the root. If this is the
>>case, it is like the "/" idea that Earnie and Corinna liked, although I
>>like it better since it relates specifically to the mounts which are
>>"automounted" (where "/" may have been remounted for a different
>>purpose and may not reflect the user's default mode preference for
>>"automounts"). Assuming that this "automount" root can be created
>>and/or set apriori and that its mode would be the default for all
>>things under it, I think that addresses my concern. If it was not your
>>intention to imply this Chris, forgive me for putting words in your
>>mouth! It may still be a good idea though!;-) Did I miss a point of
>>yours relative to the long-winded discussion of my concern?
>
>I don't think so. I was proposing that binmode is controlled by
>two separate mechanisms.
>
>1) For disk drives the setting of the mount associated with a file
> controls the default behavior.
>
>2) For everything else, the default is binary but this is overridden
> by CYGWIN=nobinmode.
>
>That's it.
>
>The point of confusion is that 1) applies to the new 'automount' method
>as well "standard" mounts. I think that is entirely consistent,
>however.
>
>-chris
>
OK, I guess I'm having trouble seeing a problem with this idea!;-)
Larry
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