From: noer AT cygnus DOT com (Geoffrey Noer) Subject: Re: Answer to your text == binary question 22 Jan 1999 00:24:35 -0800 Message-ID: <19990122001857.B21224.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@cygnus.com> References: <19990122042054 DOT 25145 DOT rocketmail AT send105 DOT yahoomail DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: Earnie Boyd Cc: cygwin developers 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