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 Message-ID: <20001113183758.12454.qmail@web110.yahoomail.com> Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 10:37:58 -0800 (PST) From: Earnie Boyd Subject: Re: setup drops mount? To: DJ Delorie Cc: Karel.Sprenger@Compaq.com, cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- DJ Delorie wrote: > > > Should we now modify this to conditionally remove these based on whether > the > > installation is into a new root directory? If I'm updating I would be very > > upset to learn that my now mounted /bin directory had been removed. I have > it > > mounted per CGF's suggestion for cygexec bit switch. > > Setup doesn't know about existing mount points. If you want to teach > it to respect existing mount points and symbolic links, then perhaps > we can safely leave existing mounts alone. > No, but it would know if it had to create a new root directory or even a new /etc/setup directory or even a new /etc/setup/installed.db file. The point is, if this is an update then the mount points are already set and there is no need to unmount and remount. Cheers, ===== Earnie Boyd mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com --- --- --- Cygwin: POSIX on Windows --- --- Minimalist GNU for Windows --- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays! http://calendar.yahoo.com/ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com