Re: ntsec a mount option?

[Earnie Boyd <earnie at users dot sourceforge dot net>]

Quoting Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>:

> On Jul 15 14:06, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> > Quoting Corinna Vinschen <XXXXXXXXXXXXXX@XXXXXX.XXX>:
>
> http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR
>
> > > On Jul 15 09:44, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:47:05AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > > >Repurpose textmode mounts?  I'm not sure I understand...
> > > >
> > > > "Repurpose" == "obliterate"
> > >
> > > Uh, oh.  You know, *personally* I'm all for it, but I fear the uproar
> > > on the Cygwin list.
> >
> > An uproar of cheers for it probably.  Most confusing bit of OS wizardry.
> > MSYS has been binary mode only since day 1.  With your advancements of 1.7
> > I would like to see MSYS disappear (or become a preconfigured Cygwin) but
> > we'll see what the MinGW community will think of that.  Not too much
> > maintenance activity on it and no one seems to have time to get out another
> > real release.
>
> Unfortunately we can't remove the textmode stuff.  We have customers who
> require it.

Is textmode still the default?  Making it harder to use is a plus.

Earnie