This is the mail archive of the
cygwin
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
Re: Cygwin broken after update (PATH problem?)
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
According to Com MN PG P E B Consultant 3 on 10/30/2006 1:09 AM:
>> One thing to try would be temporarily adding a text mount for /etc and
>> seeing if it helps.
>
> Sorry, what exactly does it mean "to add a *text* mount"?
man mount, or http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#mount
A text mount (created with mount -t instead of mount -b) treats all files
in that directory hierarchy as text files, and silently strips \r from
those files in programs that open them in default, as opposed to binary, mode.
- --
Life is short - so eat dessert first!
Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin)
Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
iD8DBQFFRfay84KuGfSFAYARAuNxAJ9bqR0YQfxSxC9nuMjzzmIySg2pbgCeKc1c
a1VaF1Vg3GSXXF9im6oZsPw=
=5RFi
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
--
Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/