Re: textmount/binmount issue

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Lemke, Michael  IZ/HZA-IOM wrote:

> This is my current mount table:
>
>  pc00626> mount -m
> mount -f -s -b "c:/MyStuff/cygwin/bin" "/usr/bin"
> mount -f -s -b "c:/MyStuff/cygwin/lib" "/usr/lib"
> mount -f -s -b "c:/MyStuff/cygwin" "/"
> mount -f -s -t -E "u:" "/u"
> mount -s -b --change-cygdrive-prefix "/"
>
> Note that /u is mounted textmode while the rest is binary.  However,
> if I access files on /u they are binmode as well.  But when I
> change the mode of the drive prefix to text then /u is also text.
> Seems like prefix is overwriting the explicit setting for /u.  If
> the drive prefix is something else but /u is still there then /u
> is not affected by the prefix settings.  Is this intended behavior?

Looks like the cygdrive prefix takes precedence over explicit mounts.
This is arguably a bug.  <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC>.
Corinna or Chris, care to comment?
	Igor
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