Re: Setting cygdrive prefix to '/' causes disappearing mounts

[Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>]

I asked Corinna to look into this as soon as she has some time.

cgf

On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 01:30:27PM -0400, David Condon wrote:
>I have been experiencing a problem in which everything in the mount
>table disappears. This happens when any program using the Cygwin DLL
>is executed. With Regedit open, I can see that the keys containing the
>mount points disappear.
>
>I recreate the mount points that existed before. If I open an additional
>window to the Cygwin bash without closing the first one, all mounts remain
>in place.
>
>If I start sshd as a service using SRVANY, as long as that program continues
>to run, all mounts remain in place. When all programs requiring the Cygwin
>DLL have been exited and nothing using the DLL is still running, the registry
>keys still exist. The next time any Cygwin program is executed (not just
>bash -- running any program under CMD.EXE does the same thing) all the
>registry keys for the mounts immediately disappear.
>
>This problem was apparently caused, at least in my case, by setting either a
>user or system /cydrive prefix to '/'. It is 100% reproducible, and especially
>interesting that even when only a user /cygdrive prefix is set to '/', all
>system mounts will disappear. Now that I have a little better understanding
>of how the cygdrive prefix works, I can see that there is really no good
>reason to change it to '/' anyway. However, the User Guide uses this exact
>command as an example (3.11, "Changing the default prefix") in the section
>on "mount". It seems that it would be appropriate to change that to anything
>other than '/' and add a warning that setting it to '/' causes the mount
>table to be cleared.

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