On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 11:25:26PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: >"Patricia J. Hawkins" wrote: >>I gather it was an accidentally introduced bug? My inference that it >>was an intended change, which unexpectedly changed the visible >>filesystem structure (added to the time I spent wading through >>archives, doc, and system changes) is a good bit of what ticked me off. >> >>Anyway, I think the mount doc needs clarification. Having different >>mount points for the user and for the system is unexpected, and it's >>also not clear from the doc that in cygwin, the user mount points take >>precedence over the system mount points. > >The 'mount' system has always had user mode mounts and system mode >mounts from day one. And, as far as I know, it has always been the >case that user mode mounts take precedence over system wide mounts if >the same path is mounted both ways. > >The only thing that we're actually talking about here, as far as I can >tell, is the cygdrive prefix. Until 1.5.14, it did not work the same >way as normal mounts in that you could not override a system mode >cygdrive prefix with a user mode cygdrive prefix.
"until 1.5.14" is, AFAIK, incorrect. It worked for a while, was broken for a while, and then was fixed. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
