Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: <20000606210102.24531.qmail@web124.yahoomail.com> Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 14:01:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com Subject: Re: mount's --change-cygdrive-prefix option (was Re: text / binary mounts (sorry)) To: Jason Tishler , Cygwin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- Jason Tishler wrote: -8<- > The tougher issue is the desired semantics when reading the cygdrive > path prefix from the registry. That is, what should be the > functionality of read_cygdrive_info_from_registry (): > > 1. Should it search for the system path prefix and if not found, > then search for the user path prefix? Or, should it search for the > user path prefix and then the system? > > 2. When no path prefixes are found should it default the system path > prefix? Or, should it default the user path prefix (as it currently > does)? > > Any thoughts? > The data supplied by the user in the user path prefix should override anything set in the system prefix and if the user path prefix doesn't exist the system path prefix should be used. If neither system or user prefixes exist already then the initialization should continue to create the user path prefix. Regards, ===== --- Earnie Boyd: __Cygwin: POSIX on Windows__ Cygwin Newbies: __Minimalist GNU for Windows__ Mingw32 List: Mingw Home: __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints! http://photos.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com