Re[2]: mount command and text/binary mode

[Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)]

At 07:32 PM 4/2/2001, TaKeDa wrote:
>Hi Inc),
>
>Monday, April 02, 2001, 4:06:40 PM, you wrote:
>
> >>$ mount
> >>Device              Directory           Type         Flags
> >>c:\SERVER\Apache\cgi-bin  /mnt/cgi            user         binmode
> >>C:\SERVER\eggdrop\1.5.3  /mnt/egg            user         binmode
> >>C:\CygWin\home\takeda  /home/administrator  user         binmode
> >>C:\CygWin\bin       /usr/bin            user         binmode
> >>C:\CygWin\lib       /usr/lib            user         binmode
> >>C:\CygWin           /                   user         binmode
> >>
> >>$ mount --show-cygdrive-prefixes
> >>Prefix              Type         Flags
> >>/cygdrive           user         binmode
> >>
> >>As you see all mounting points are set into binary mode, but I notice
> >>that cygwin still write files in text mode and this is realy anoying.
>
>
>LHRPI> Can you give an example and provide the output of cygcheck -s -r -v on the
>LHRPI> system from which you ran the example?
>
>I just upgrade, and some things change, but problem is still there :/
>


And the example that shows the problem?


<snip>

>   615k 2001/01/31 C:\CygWin\bin\cygwin1.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
>                   "cygwin1.dll" v0.0 ts=2001/1/31 7:08
>     Cygwin DLL version info:
>         dll major: 1001
>         dll minor: 8
>         dll epoch: 19
>         dll bad signal mask: 19005
>         dll old termios: 5
>         dll malloc env: 28
>         api major: 0
>         api minor: 34
>         shared data: 3
>         dll identifier: cygwin1
>         mount registry: 2
>         cygnus registry name: Cygnus Solutions
>         cygwin registry name: Cygwin
>         program options name: Program Options
>         cygwin mount registry name: mounts v2
>         cygdrive flags: cygdrive flags
>         cygdrive prefix: cygdrive prefix
>         cygdrive default prefix: 
>         build date: Wed Jan 31 10:08:38 EST 2001
>         shared id: cygwin1S3
>
>   615k 2001/01/31 c:\COMMAND\cygwin1.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
>                   "cygwin1.dll" v0.0 ts=2001/1/31 7:08
>     Cygwin DLL version info:
>         dll major: 1001
>         dll minor: 8
>         dll epoch: 19
>         dll bad signal mask: 19005
>         dll old termios: 5
>         dll malloc env: 28
>         api major: 0
>         api minor: 34
>         shared data: 3
>         dll identifier: cygwin1
>         mount registry: 2
>         cygnus registry name: Cygnus Solutions
>         cygwin registry name: Cygwin
>         program options name: Program Options
>         cygwin mount registry name: mounts v2
>         cygdrive flags: cygdrive flags
>         cygdrive prefix: cygdrive prefix
>         cygdrive default prefix: 
>         build date: Wed Jan 31 10:08:38 EST 2001
>         shared id: cygwin1S3
>
>Use -h to see help about each section


Get rid of one of these.  Never keep duplicate cygwin1.dlls on your system.


> >>BTW2: Why I can't add mount point to system-wide registry location?
> >>When I trying to use arguments -bs it displays help.
>
>LHRPI> Try mount -b -s <the rest of the line>
>It works, thank you.
>Because of this:
>"usage mount [-bfstux] <win32path> <posixpath>"
>I understand syntax incorrectly.


Yes, this is a "bug".


> >>BTW3: It's normal that when I'm mounting in place of win32patch
> >>Instead of backslashes I need to use shlashes?
> >>ie. C:\WINDOWS I need write as C:/WINDOWS to make mount command
> >>working.
>LHRPI> In bash/sh, yes.  If you want to use backslashes, you need to escape them.
>LHRPI> Remember, if you're in a UNIX-like shell, you're in a UNIX-like world!;-)
>
>Ok, I just say that because I was thinking that problem can be there.



Yes, this is a common cockpit error we see on this list.



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