Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 08:57:50 -0400 From: Jason Tishler To: Earnie Boyd Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Deprecating Automount (was Re: Why not mount / at C: ?) Message-ID: <20000824085750.B5611@DP> References: <20000824115435.26205.qmail@web108.yahoomail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <20000824115435.26205.qmail@web108.yahoomail.com>; from earnie_boyd@yahoo.com on Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 04:54:35AM -0700 Organization: Dot Hill Systems Corp. Earnie, On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 04:54:35AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote: > I'm beginning to think that it would be best to not support unmounted drives > in the Cygwin environment. It gets far to confusing and there are solutions > around not having the support. Saying this, IMO, we should deprecate the > unmounted drives support. What do you think? Sorry but I disagree. I think that the automount feature is very useful and should not be deprecated. For example, I really like being able to access a mounted share as /cygdrive/X (where X is the associated drive letter) and my floppy drive as /cygdrive/A without cluttering up my mount table. However, I must admit that I'm biased since I contributed a patch to enhance Cygwin's automount feature... Jason -- Jason Tishler Director, Software Engineering Phone: +1 (732) 264-8770 x235 Dot Hill Systems Corporation Fax: +1 (732) 264-8798 82 Bethany Road, Suite 7 Email: Jason.Tishler@dothill.com Hazlet, NJ 07730 USA WWW: http://www.dothill.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com