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Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 21:51:33 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Checked in first phase of mount table awareness for setup.exe
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In-Reply-To: <20010510214421.A21810@redhat.com>; from cgf@redhat.com on Thu, May 10, 2001 at 09:44:21PM -0400

On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 09:44:21PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>I checked in a first round of changes for setup.exe.  I stole some code
>for scanning the mount table from cygwin, of course.
>
>I'm sure that there are assumptions that need to be revisited but it
>seems to work ok now.
>
>I believe that it will currently reset all existing paths to be the same
>binmode/textmode as root but I haven't checked for sure.

Sorry.  I don't mean all existing paths.  I mean that any mount table entry
that setup.exe cares about will be reset to the same mode as root.  I think.

cgf