From:	chiuk AT cs DOT indiana DOT edu (Kenneth Chiu)
Subject:	Mounts and relative pathnames
9 Mar 1998 18:33:03 -0800 :
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To:	gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

I seem to have a problem with 'ls' and relative pathnames.  I have
searched the FAQ and the mailing list archives, but haven't found
anything.  Suppose I do the following sequence:

    mount N:/root /
    mount N:/dir1 /usr
    cd /
    ls usr

I would expect to see the contents of N:/dir1, but instead I see
nothing.  If I type 'ls /usr', I see what I expect, so I think I'm
executing the correct 'ls'.  If I type 'cd usr', and then 'ls', I
also see what I expect.  Here is what my mount table actually looks
like:

Device                        Directory           Type        Flags
N:\Cygnus\B19\H-i386-cygwin32 /usr                native      text!=binary
N:\tmp                        /tmp                native      text!=binary
\\.\tape1:                    /dev/st1            native      text!=binary
\\.\tape0:                    /dev/st0            native      text!=binary
\\.\b:                        /dev/fd1            native      text!=binary
\\.\a:                        /dev/fd0            native      text!=binary
N:\root                       /                   native      text!=binary

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