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Re: [HEADSUP] Let's start a Cygwin 1.7 release area
On Fri, 4 Apr 2008, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Apr 3 17:46, Charles Wilson wrote:
> > Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >
> >> Why do we need a fstab.$SID and linux doesn't need this?
> >
> > Well, I like to create user mounts for each user (Guest,
> > Administrator, me) like this:
> >
> > mount -f -u -b "C:/Documents and Settings/<user>/My Documents" "/mydocs"
> > mount -f -u -b "C:/Documents and Settings/<user>/Desktop" "/desktop"
> >
> > mainly for convenience, but also because spaces and the command line
> > don't mix well. Linux doesn't have to deal with asinine decisions made
> > in Redmond, WA...from a hidden microphone in 1995: "LOOK! We can
> > support spaces in filenames as well as filenames longer than 8.3, so
> > let's use them EVERYWHERE! Spaces for EVERYBODY! Really long and hard
> > to type system paths, like 'Documents and Settings'! Whoo-pee!! Steve
> > Jobs has got nuthin' on us!"
> >
> > I realize that on (clean-install, non-upgrade) Vista, this is less of
> > an issue, because the "new" paths are
> >
> > mount -f -u -b "C:/Users/<user>/Documents" "/mydocs"
> > mount -f -u -b "C:/Users/<user>/Desktop" "/desktop"
> >
> > but XP and 2k aren't going anywhere for a long long time, if even one of
> > the horror stories I've read about Vista are true...
>
> I understand that. Well, we shouldn't make this overly public, but
> keeping the fstab.$SID handling in doesn't hurt the least bit.
>
> Btw., since setup.exe (or the subsequent script) can and will always create
> an /etc/fstab file, doesn't that mean we can get rid of the choices
> "all users" and "just me"? The only difference between these two choices
> is in which registry area the mount points go. So there's no reason to
> stick to that choice.
Yes, that makes sense.
> And while we're at it, I don't see any need to stick to the UNIX/DOS
> choice either. We should always install binary mount points. If the
> user needs text mounts, there's an editor and a fstab file, right?
Ah, but which mode will you edit it in? :-)
Igor
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