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Re: Deprecating Automount (was Re: Why not mount / at C: ?)
- To: Jason Tishler <Jason dot Tishler at dothill dot com>
- Subject: Re: Deprecating Automount (was Re: Why not mount / at C: ?)
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 07:58:04 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
--- Jason Tishler <Jason.Tishler@dothill.com> wrote:
> 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...
>
Ok, make it switchable with the default being turned off. The switch could be
`CYGWIN=... automount ...'. Here's a scenario for you to try, `cd /cygdrive/c
&& cd ..'.
Cheers,
=====
---
Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
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