question about cygdrive flags string in the registry (Win 2000)

[Viviana Cotirlea]

Thanks for your answer. Yes, I'm aware about licensing issues, but thanks 
for pointing it out.

>From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-cygwin@cygwin.com>
>Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com
>To: cygwin@cygwin.com
>CC: vcotirlea@hotmail.com
>Subject: Re: question about cygdrive flags string in the registry (Win 
>2000)
>Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 11:51:54 -0500
>
>On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 05:34:30PM +0200, Viviana Cotirlea wrote:
> >I ported a database application on Windows 2000 using cygwin. For testing
> >reasons I put on a clean (no cygwin installed) Windows 2000 machine the
> >generated app.exe and the cygwin1.dll. For some reason the dbopen() call
> >failed when trying to read the created before database.
> >After trying to investigating the problem, I found out that it is working
> >if in the registry the following data exists:
> >HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2
> >cygdrive flags 22
> >
> >If this is missing the dbopen() call will fail.
> >
> >My question is: Because at one point I would like to distribute the 
>product
> >to others also, and I don't want to obligate them to install the cygwin, 
>I
> >would like to know why this string is required, and if my only solution
> >would be to add that key in the registry if the cygwin is not already
> >installed on that machine?
>
>This is probably a binmode/textmode thing.  I don't know what the flags
>are but probably dbopen needs to open files in binary and hasn't been
>properly ported to do this without help from the cygwin mount command.
>See "mount --help".
>
>I am concerned when you talk about distributing the product, however.
>It's just a knee jerk reaction on my part but whenever I hear "distribute
>the product" coupled with "don't want..them to install the (sic) cygwin",
>I wonder about licensing issues.
>
>You are aware that your product is now GPLed right?  You need to distribute
>both the source code for your product and, if you are providing a copy
>of the cygwin dll (shudder) you need to provide source code for that.  This
>is only negotiable if you've purchased a license from Red Hat.  Otherwise,
>you must use the GPL.
>
>cgf


_________________________________________________________________
Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE*  
http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail


--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting:         http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/