Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Path: not-for-mail From: Shankar Unni Subject: Re: [Proposal] Moving user mount information to HKLM Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 10:45:26 -0700 Lines: 18 Message-ID: <3D949936.8050002@cotagesoft.com> References: <000b01c265df$b61ef630$4501a8c0@scrapbox> NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-64-165-207-58.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1033148750 19730 64.165.207.58 (27 Sep 2002 17:45:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 17:45:50 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (Compact) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en On 9/26/2002 9:38 PM, Doru Carastan wrote: > How about breaking free from using the windoze registry. There is > absolutely no special need to use it IMO. All the mount info can > be stored in a plain ASCII file like 'cygwin.cfg'. As part of its > initialization the cygwin1.dll can use GetModuleFileName() to figure > out from where it was loaded and attempt to parse a possible config > file located in the same dir with it. This doesn't work so good if the user doesn't have write permissions to the "bin" directory - where would the user mounts go? So then you'd need one "system mount file" (like above), and one "user mount file" per user. And where would that go? Especially if you have to do a user mount to get to the user's home directory in the first place? -- Shankar. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/