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Re: setup drops mount?


On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 09:34:56AM -0800, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>--- DJ Delorie <dj@delorie.com> wrote:
>> 
>> > D:                  /var                system       binmode
>> > 
>> > the last entry is not there anymore when setup finishes.
>> 
>> There are certain key mounts that setup removes always, /var is one of
>> them.  If you look in install.cc, you'll see the whole list:
>> 
>>   remove_mount ("/");
>>   remove_mount ("/usr");
>>   remove_mount ("/usr/bin");
>>   remove_mount ("/usr/lib");
>>   remove_mount ("/var");
>>   remove_mount ("/lib");
>>   remove_mount ("/bin");
>>   remove_mount ("/etc");
>> 
>>   create_mount ("/", root_dir, istext, issystem);
>>   create_mount ("/usr/bin", concat (root_dir, "/bin", 0), istext, issystem);
>>   create_mount ("/usr/lib", concat (root_dir, "/lib", 0), istext, issystem);
>> 
>> This is done to ensure that the resulting setup works smoothly for all
>> users.
>
>Should we now modify this to conditionally remove these based on whether the
>installation is into a new root directory?  If I'm updating I would be very
>upset to learn that my now mounted /bin directory had been removed.  I have it
>mounted per CGF's suggestion for cygexec bit switch.

Actually, I suppose that setup should set the cygexec bit for /bin and /usr/bin.
It's been valid for a number of releases of cygwin.

The only problem is that mingw programs like strace.exe won't work correctly,
so they have to be "mounted" separately.

mount -f -b -x c:\cygwin\bin\strace.exe /bin/strace.exe
mount -f -b -x c:\cygwin\bin\strace.exe /usr/bin/strace.exe

Not too pretty...  Maybe we need another bin directory that holds non-cygwin
executables.  cygcheck.exe really shouldn't be a cygwin binary so it should
go there, too.

cgf

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