Deprecating Automount (was Re: Why not mount / at C: ?)

[Earnie Boyd]

--- Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 09:02:07AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> >> The above is easily corrected -- just execute the following once:
> >> 
> >>     mkdir /cygdrive
> >> 
> >> BTW, I create mount point directories for all of my mount points
> >> (including the cygdrive prefix), because it makes bash's tab
> >> completion feature work consistently regardless of whether the name
> >> begins with a mount point, symlink, etc.
> >> 
> >
> >That's confusing too.  I would expect to see the subdirectories of /cygdrive
> >and therefore a list of disk devices by letter.  I prefer mounting the
> device
> >and not needing the /cygdrive prefix at all.
> 
> So would I.  So we fix that.  We don't eliminate the /cygdrive feature.
> 

Ok, we don't eliminate the /cygdrive feature; but, I can see the argument,
especially with inetutils and login supplying remote access, that one only
wants to allow access to directories in the Mount Table with the Cygwin Tools. 
Shouldn't we allow for [no]automount?

Cheers,

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