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From: cgf AT cygnus DOT com (Christopher Faylor)
Subject: Re: HKEYs used for mount in NT registry
1 Aug 1998 20:00:38 -0700 :
Message-ID: <19980801212917.A21306.cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com>
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To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

On Sat, Aug 01, 1998 at 05:23:54PM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>---"Christopher G. Faylor" <cgf AT cygnus DOT com> wrote:
>>The mount table in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE is global.  If you copy the
>>mounts from the HKEY_CURRENT_USER then these mounts will be the default
>>mounts.
>
>Is there a plan to allow a switch to the mount command to specify
>--global, --user or --both with a default of --user in the next major
>release?

It's been planned for a while.  It just lacks tuits, currently.
Anyone want to submit a patch?  I'd love to see it.

Btw, I should have mentioned that Sergey added this HKLM registry feature,
just as he added so many other useful things to cygwin32.
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