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Re: Added crude update ability to setup.exe
On Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 10:21:27PM +0200, Michael Ring wrote:
>On Sun, 30 Apr 2000 13:44:41 -0400, you wrote:
>
>>On Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 10:51:22AM +0200, Michael Ring wrote:
>>>If it were, the / - mount for cygwin could not work because it is
>>>stored in HKLM/SOFTWARE.
>>
>>No. It isn't.
>
>
>??? Of course it is ???
>
>Perhaps you did get that wrong because I was lazy while typing.
>
>The registry entry for the root-mount is:
>
>HKLM\Software\Cygnus Solutions\mounts v2\/
>
>(At least on every signe machine I know of...)
>
>It is there because it is a system mount...
Right. It is there *when* you issue a system mount. The root
device is not placed there by default. I thought that is
what you were referring to by the "/ - mount".
The net install does not do this but it has been mentioned that
maybe it should.
This is used when you use the "mount -s" command.
I guess what you're saying is that this key shows up when you
install software even when you're not privileged to do so. I
guess I'll have to create an unprivileged user account on my
NT system and try this out. You're probably right.
cgf