Re: [bug?] binary mount point option in setup

["Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>]

At 04:19 PM 4/8/2002, James Nord wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I apear to have found a bug in cygwins setup program 2.125.2.10
>
>Description:
>
>When installing as administrator on XP if you select install for everyone and set the default file format to be unix then the /cygdrive mount point will be binary mode when running as the administrator user.
>
>mounts are stored in HLKM, however /cygdrive mounts and defaults are stored in HKCU
>(see below.)
>
>So when a user (not administrator) comes to use the cygwin tools /cygdrive is mounted text not binary.
>
>Why does cygwin store the /cygdrive default in HKCU and not HKLM when installing as multiuser?
>why not store the info in HKLM along with the other mount options?


Patches cheerfully accepted!


>Also I couldn't find a way to change the options without running setup or regedit again.
>full drives can be changed with the mount command but /cygdrive only?


mount -b -s -c /cygdrive



Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
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