At 11:51 AM 8/19/2004, you wrote: >On Aug 19 17:13, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >> Sigh. If I were the god of Cygwin, I would have not created textmode >> mounts at all. I cannot see the point why it is neccessary to use it. > >Full ACK! Unfortunately the genuine gods of Cygwin have left the project >already long ago and they probably don't even know anymore what that should >have been good for. >
Geoffrey Noer, the Cygwin maintainer before Chris and Corinna, felt that full compatibility with Windows was a primary goal and POSIX/UNIX compatibility was a close second (at least he expressed these views at the time he was running the show). This may have been a common vision held by others who brought Cygwin mounts into existence. I don't remember a time when mounts weren't used in Cygwin (I doubt there was such a time ;-) ) but I do recall when binary mounts were not the default, so clearly there was a feeling that text mounts were important at one time in a very real way. Not that I agree with that view. ;-) BTW, I'm not bringing this up for any real important reason. It's largely trivia but since the topic came up, I thought I'd share my recollections. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/