Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-ID: <20000424200922.4732.qmail@web118.yahoomail.com> Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 13:09:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com Subject: Re: How to change "/" from textmode to binmode? To: Bob McGowan Cc: Cygwin Mailing List MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- Bob McGowan wrote: -8<- > > In an earlier response to the original question, Chris Faylor suggested > using 'mount -?' to get descriptions of options and that one of these > should help. So I was trying out mount with different options, in > different ways, and came up with a new issue. > > 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? > I don't think your conclusion is valid, IMNSHO. I think the User MPT (mount point table) should override the System MPT. That way the user can do what he likes while providing a consistent default. I believe that this was the purpose given to the innovation. ===== --- Earnie Boyd: __Cygwin: POSIX on Windows__ Cygwin Newbies: __Minimalist GNU for Windows__ Mingw32 List: Mingw Home: __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com