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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 16:32:42 -0400
From: Jeff Sturm <jsturm@sigma6.com>
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To: Bob McGowan <rmcgowan@veritas.com>
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Subject: Re: How to change "/" from textmode to binmode?
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Bob McGowan wrote:
> It appears that I can create an environment where / is mounted on 2
> different locations, one stored at the system level and one at the
> user.  It would seem to me to make sense that 'mount' should not allow
> duplicates of system level mount points at the user level.  Is this a
> valid conclusion?

Why not?  As a Cygwin (non-privileged) user why shouldn't I be allowed
to override the system mount table?

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Jeff Sturm
jsturm@sigma6.com

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