From c6a00dcbb99e20eeb313b8b9a7892f6baa367aca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Corinna Vinschen Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 12:26:45 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] * pathnames.sgml (mount-table): Indicate that user-specific mounts override system-wide. --- winsup/doc/ChangeLog | 5 +++++ winsup/doc/pathnames.sgml | 4 +++- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog index 704918bbd..a26525b3a 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2005-04-20 Brian Dessent + + * pathnames.sgml (mount-table): Indicate that user-specific + mounts override system-wide. + 2005-04-20 Gerd Spalink * fhandler-tut.txt: Update description to cygwin 1.5.13 diff --git a/winsup/doc/pathnames.sgml b/winsup/doc/pathnames.sgml index 4447a0cf1..b8cd60c48 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/pathnames.sgml +++ b/winsup/doc/pathnames.sgml @@ -47,7 +47,9 @@ v<version>" where <version> is the latest registry version associated with the Cygwin library (this version is not the same as the release number). The system-wide table is located under the same subkeys -under HKEY_LOCAL_SYSTEM. +under HKEY_LOCAL_SYSTEM. The user mount table takes precedence over +the system-wide table if a path is mounted in both. This includes the +setting of the cygdrive prefix. Since Windows uses drive letters instead of a single filesystem root, the POSIX root / must be set to a directory