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Re: textmount/binmount issue


On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 11:05:13AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Lemke, Michael  IZ/HZA-IOM wrote:
> 
> > This is my current mount table:
> >
> >  pc00626> mount -m
> > mount -f -s -b "c:/MyStuff/cygwin/bin" "/usr/bin"
> > mount -f -s -b "c:/MyStuff/cygwin/lib" "/usr/lib"
> > mount -f -s -b "c:/MyStuff/cygwin" "/"
> > mount -f -s -t -E "u:" "/u"
> > mount -s -b --change-cygdrive-prefix "/"
> >
> > Note that /u is mounted textmode while the rest is binary.  However,
> > if I access files on /u they are binmode as well.  But when I
> > change the mode of the drive prefix to text then /u is also text.
> > Seems like prefix is overwriting the explicit setting for /u.  If
> > the drive prefix is something else but /u is still there then /u
> > is not affected by the prefix settings.  Is this intended behavior?
> 
> Looks like the cygdrive prefix takes precedence over explicit mounts.
> This is arguably a bug.  <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC>.
> Corinna or Chris, care to comment?

My name doesn't start with C, but I will comment that if the precedence
went the other way, a mount like:

  mount c:/foo /cygdrive/d

would make a windows path d:\bar have no posix translation.

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