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Re: [HEADSUP] Let's start a Cygwin 1.7 release area
On Apr 5 13:38, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 12:08:34PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Apr 4 14:22, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >- All mount points in /etc/fstab are system mount points by default,
> > all other mount points are always user mount points. The important
> > thing here is, that user mount points can't override system mount
> > points anymore. If you try that, you get an EPERM error. The reason
> > for this change is to allow sysadmins to specify paths in /etc/fstab
> > which no user is allowed to screw up. Paths which the user may
> > umount or re-mount can be marked as user mounts by the admin.
>
> I don't believe that linux acts like this with user mounts.
It doesn't. I didn't try to do exaclty what Linux does, but to implement
a concept which makes sense on Cygwin while coming at least close to
Linux.
> >- The flags string in the fstab file also understands the flags "system"
> > and "user" now, to allow the sysadmin to specify default paths which a
> > user may change.
>
> When implementing something like this can't we just try to use prior
> art? linux has the concept of a "user" mount but it is not the default
And it's not on Cygwin. The default is "system".
> and, I think that the inverse of user would be "nouser", not "system".
Well, the prior art I used was our own mount(1) which is using these
options for a couple of years. I don't care to name the system mounts
now nouser mounts in /etc/fstab, especially given that you don't have to
use this option at all, but actually I think we will not get rid of
the term system mount for a couple of years. At least not in the cygwin
mailing lists. And probably not in my head, either ;)
Corinna
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