Re: mount's --change-cygdrive-prefix option (was Re: text / binary mounts (sorry))

[Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>]

On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 02:01:02PM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>--- Jason Tishler <Jason.Tishler@dothill.com> wrote:
>-8<-
>> The tougher issue is the desired semantics when reading the cygdrive
>> path prefix from the registry.  That is, what should be the
>> functionality of read_cygdrive_info_from_registry ():
>> 
>> 1. Should it search for the system path prefix and if not found,
>> then search for the user path prefix?  Or, should it search for the
>> user path prefix and then the system?
>> 
>> 2. When no path prefixes are found should it default the system path
>> prefix?  Or, should it default the user path prefix (as it currently
>> does)?
>> 
>> Any thoughts?
>
>The data supplied by the user in the user path prefix should override anything
>set in the system prefix and if the user path prefix doesn't exist the system
>path prefix should be used.  If neither system or user prefixes exist already
>then the initialization should continue to create the user path prefix.

That's correct.  In other words, the path prefix semantics should mirror the
regular mount semantics.

cgf

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