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Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 12:51:07 -0400
From: Paul Berrevoets <paul AT swi DOT com>
Organization: SWI Systemware/Halcyon Inc.
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To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: Vanishing mounts
References: <9909211623 DOT AA01769 AT mlx DOT com> <37E99D8F DOT 91C26F07 AT earthlink DOT net> <37EA47B2 DOT 2D5973F4 AT jhuapl DOT edu>
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I had "vanishing mounts" months ago. In my case, the problem was this:

I had a cygwin application installed as a service using the account
LocalSystem that was started automatically by the service manager when the
system started. The cygwin1.dll initialization would get the mount table
from the LocalSystem user profile (which would be empty) and that would be
it. If I logged in, and started a bash shell and added mount points, they
would be added to _my_ user profile, and therefore would not be seen when
the system restarted.

I believe Sergey's CoolView has an inetd service which could display similar
behaviour depending on how it is installed.

The following lines in src/winsup/winsup.h say it all:
class shared_info {...
  /* FIXME: Doesn't work if more than one user on system. */
  mount_info mount;
...};

In the meantime, this should be FAQ'ed
--
Paul



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