Mail Archives: cygwin/1998/08/29/06:54:41
On Wed, 26 Aug 1998 19:17:45 -0700, Stephen L Arnold
(sarnold AT coyote DOT rain DOT org) wrote:
>...> [mounting on /usr]
> These directories (as such) don't exist on my machine; how can they
> work? Don't they have to point to the right places? And what are
> the right places under the cygwin directory structure?
It's a known feature that the mounted-on directory (/usr, etc) doesn't need
to be created - unlike real U**x. However IMHO this is desirable because a
c:\usr directory would just clutter up the directory structure for
non-Cygwin tools.
> About the mount command:
>
> Can I just mount directories from any part of any DOS partition
> wherever I want?
Pretty much.
> What about this answer from the FAQ?
>
> How do I set /etc up?
> ---------------------
>
> If you want a valid /etc set up (so "ls -l" will display correct
> user information for example) and if you are running NT (preferably
> with an NTFS file system), you should just need to create the /etc
> directory on the filesystem mounted as / and then use mkpasswd and
> mkgroup to create /etc/passwd and /etc/group respectively. Since
> Windows 95's Win32 API is less complete, you're out of luck if
> you're running Windows 95!
>
> I kinda took that to mean win95 doesn't have the user/group info,
> etc, to make an /etc dir worthless for win95. What is /etc good
> for under win95?
termcap, profile, to name 2.
I think the FAQ is talking about /etc as the home for (shadow) password and
group files. These aren't supported for W95.
No doubt some fiddling with user profiles could arrange different $HOMEs for
various users and so on under 95.
--
speaking personally
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