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

[David A. Cobb]

And then, there is the IETF/W3C scheme: file://[<hostname>]/<d>|/ . 

It's regrettable (since | is special in XNix-land), but there is 
a lot of it around and it ain't gonna get better.


Jason Tishler wrote:
> 
> Earnie,
> 
> On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 04:54:35AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> > I'm beginning to think that it would be best to not support unmounted drives
> > in the Cygwin environment.  It gets far to confusing and there are solutions
> > around not having the support.  Saying this, IMO, we should deprecate the
> > unmounted drives support.  What do you think?
> 
> Sorry but I disagree.  I think that the automount feature is very
> useful and should not be deprecated.  For example, I really like being
> able to access a mounted share as /cygdrive/X (where X is the associated
> drive letter) and my floppy drive as /cygdrive/A without cluttering up my
> mount table.
> 
> However, I must admit that I'm biased since I contributed a patch to
> enhance Cygwin's automount feature...
> 
> Jason
> 
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