On Aug 24 07:17, Fergus wrote: > >I'd suspect that /m and /d are on text mounts > >and your home directory is on a binary mount, or vice versa. > > Thank you. Something's changed though not quite as described above. > > Has something changed in the conventions for default mounts? I've > either missed something, or I'm doing something wrong. > > After installing cygwin 1.7.6 mount -p shows flag textmode. I > reverted to 1.7.5 and mount -p shows flag binmode. > > For the moment I have reverted to 1.7.5. > > This is an utterly horrid change (binmode to textmode) but I guess > it is intended (and was probably discussed forever in advance of > making it). Please can you confirm (intended change), or is this a > glitch (unintended change, to be corrected) or has my installation > become de-railed (1.7.6 should be binmode like 1.7.5; somehow, in > this local case, is textmode and needs mending locally)?
This is neither an intended nor discussed behaviour, nor is it clear if it's a glitch in Cygwin. Mount points are never set to textmode automagically, unless you set them explicitely to text in /etc/fstab or /etc/fstab.d/$USER. I tried this myself by either omitting the cygdrive prefix in /etc/fstab, or by using various settings for it, even invalid ones. I can't reproduce this. My cygdrive prefix is binary, unless I use the "text" mount option explicitely. Would you mind to paste the file content of /etc/fstab and, if it exists, /etc/fstab.d/$USER into your reply? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
