Mail Archives: cygwin/1999/03/17/20:23:59
---Tripp Lilley <tlilley AT perspex DOT com> wrote:
>
> mount reports (among other things):
>
> v:\\tmp /tmp native text!=binary
>
> which is correct.
>
> in cmd.exe:
>
> c:
> cd \tmp
> (pwd now C:\tmp)
>
> ls
>
> 'ls' displays contents of /tmp, not c:\tmp! ls //c/tmp works as
expected.
> 'rm', 'chmod', and others seem to be looking in //c/tmp as expected
when
> run with relative path names (ie: echo 'hello' > /tmp/foo.txt,
followed by
> 'rm foo.txt' with c:\tmp as pwd bombs as expected saying "foo.txt:
No such
> file or directory")
>
Relative paths with the official b20.1 release are known to feature a
few inconsistencies. The path emulation has been reworked for a newer
release. Furthermore if you have a mounted directory for /tmp on one
drive and the root mounted to a different drive and you have a tmp
directory physically under root this is what is known as a mount point
and isn't intended to be the /tmp directory but a placeholder that is
usually empty.
If you don't understand this structure then you will definitely get
confused. A lot of the problems stem from the fact that the
filesystem isn't a unix filesystem but the cygwin product pretends
that it is. It can give some interesting results.
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