Inetutils and mount points

[Ross Smith]

> From: Ross Smith <ross.s@ihug.co.nz>
> 
> I'd like to get Cygwin's inetd running, but I've run into something in
> the setup instructions that I don't understand.
> 
> >From the inetd readme:
> 
> >  - No user mount point is valid anymore! You have to install all
> >    your mount points in the system mount table. This doesn't
> >    change after you have logged in to a normal user account eg.
> >    via telnet/rlogin. It's possible that we can use the user
> >    mounts as soon as somebody contributes a patch to login and
> >    ftp that allows loading a user hive into the registry after
> >    authentication.
> 
> The problem is that I can't figure out *how* to change all my mount
> points to system. I tried doing it by hand, and ended up screwing up
> my Cygwin system so badly I had to delete and reinstall Cygwin from
> scratch to get it working again. The problem basically seems to be
> that, once you've unmounted the three original mount points
> (/, /usr/bin, and /usr/lib), everything stops working and you can't
> remount them again.

FYI, The mount points are loaded in the registry:

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2]
"cygdrive prefix"="/cygdrive"
"cygdrive flags"=dword:00000020

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/]
"native"="C:\\cygwin"
"flags"=dword:00000002

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/usr/bin]
"native"="C:\\cygwin\\bin"
"flags"=dword:00000002

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/usr/lib]
"native"="C:\\cygwin\\lib"
"flags"=dword:00000002
 
> A search of the mailing list archives turned up nothing helpful. Am I
> missing something that's supposed to be obvious?
 
See the thread I started titled "Re: Why does cygwin 1.1.2 hide /usr/bin?" for more information.

Cheers,

Ross Smith (!)

P.S. My father and grandfather are Ross Smiths' as well!

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