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Deprecating Automount (was Re: Why not mount / at C: ?)
- To: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Subject: Deprecating Automount (was Re: Why not mount / at C: ?)
- From: Jason Tishler <Jason dot Tishler at dothill dot com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 08:57:50 -0400
- Cc: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Organization: Dot Hill Systems Corp.
- References: <20000824115435.26205.qmail@web108.yahoomail.com>
Earnie,
On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 04:54:35AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> I'm beginning to think that it would be best to not support unmounted drives
> in the Cygwin environment. It gets far to confusing and there are solutions
> around not having the support. Saying this, IMO, we should deprecate the
> unmounted drives support. What do you think?
Sorry but I disagree. I think that the automount feature is very
useful and should not be deprecated. For example, I really like being
able to access a mounted share as /cygdrive/X (where X is the associated
drive letter) and my floppy drive as /cygdrive/A without cluttering up my
mount table.
However, I must admit that I'm biased since I contributed a patch to
enhance Cygwin's automount feature...
Jason
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