On Aug 24 10:09, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 24 07:17, Fergus wrote: > > 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?
Oh and, btw., could you please test if this still occurs with the latest developer snapshot from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ Thanks, 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
