From: cgf AT bbc DOT com (Christopher Faylor) Subject: Re: cygwin32-b18, coolview, mingw32... (NBY) 4 Feb 1998 21:32:33 -0800 Message-ID: References: <01BD3190 DOT 39CD00F0 AT gater DOT krystalbank DOT msk DOT ru> Reply-To: cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com To: cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com In article <199802050039 DOT QAA04540 AT skaro DOT cygnus DOT com>, Geoffrey Noer 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? -- http://www.bbc.com/ cgf AT bbc DOT com "Strange how unreal VMS=>UNIX Solutions Boston Business Computing the real can be."