Re: The death of the //x use in cygwin

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 09:40:41AM +0100, Don Sharp wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> 
>> I wanted to give a heads up to everyone that the //c method
>> for accessing drives will finally be removed in Cygwin 1.3.3.
>> We've been threatening to do this for more than a year and
>> the time has finally come.
>> 
>...snip..
>> 
>> If this is too cumbersome, you can change /cygdrive to whatever
>> you want.  Many people seem to like to have the drives accessible
>> as a directory so that c: == /c .  The easiest way to default to
>> this behavior is to do this:
>> 
>> mount -s --change-cygdrive-prefix /
>> 
>> Or conversely, if you think that /cygdrive is too short and too
>> hard to remember, you could also do something like:
>> 
>> mount -s --change-cygdrive-prefix /bobs-disk-devices
>> 
>> Then, you can access drives as:
>> 
>> ls /bobs-disk-devices/c/foo
>> 
>> Note that the default "mount mode" for these devices remains as "text
>> mounts".  If you want to change the mount mode to be "binmode', you
>> can do this:
>> 
>> mount -b -s --change-cygdrive-prefix /
>> 
>
>however even if you do
>
>mount -f -b -s --change-cygdrive-prefix /cygdrive
>
>to try and change from user level to global level
>
>mount still reports ( after logging out and back in again and inetd not
>running prior to logout )
>
>d: on /cygdrive/d type user (binmode,noumount)
>k: on /cygdrive/k type user (binmode,noumount)
>l: on /cygdrive/l type user (binmode,noumount)
>t: on /cygdrive/t type user (binmode,noumount)
>
>Keep up the good work.

Um.  "User level" has precedence over system level.  It always has.

Logging out and logging in have never had any effect on the mount
table.

cgf

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