On Dec 18 16:58, Thomas Wolff wrote: > Hi > >- A new mount type "usertemp" has been introduced, which allows to mount > > a POSIX directory to the Windows per-user temporary directory: > > > > none /tmp usertemp binary,posix=0 0 0 > That's a nice feature. I wonder, though, how the ordinary user, or the user > with Linux/Unix background, would become aware of even the existence of that > feature (so not necessarily studying the documentation). > I would suggest to add a commented line to /etc/fstab which documents it.
Well, here's the default fstab file: # /etc/fstab # # This file is read once by the first process in a Cygwin process tree. # To pick up changes, restart all Cygwin processes. For a description # see https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table # This is default anyway: none /cygdrive cygdrive binary,posix=0,user 0 0 so it explicitely points to the documentation. I don't see why we should move the documentation into the files. The longer the preceeding comment. the longer the startup times. And, you know, Cygwin is slow!!1!11 > Based on similar consideration, by the way, I am not happy with the > disappearance of /etc/passwd and /etc/groups altogether. Last time I looked > on SunOS, there were at least dummy files with two comment lines giving a > hint on how this would be configured in a network. Cygwin is slow. I wouldn't want it having to open and read the content of two more files for no good reason, now that it has to read nsswitch already. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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