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Date:	Thu, 14 Dec 2000 06:51:45 -0800 (PST)
From:	Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject:	Re: strange phenomena
To:	Wise Man <silly_2k AT yahoo DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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--- Wise Man <silly_2k AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:
> I installed "cygwin" under "c:\cygnus" (due to
> historical reasons).
> When I "ls /cygdrive/c/cygnus/usr/lib" I see some
> files, but on "ls /usr/lib" I see different files. How
> can it be?

This isn't strange.  Cygwin uses /usr/bin and /usr/lib as mount points.  Those
points must be physical directories on the disk.  These directories are usually
but don't have to be empty.  When the mount points are mounted they point to
the physical drive and directory and thus when you `ls /usr/lib' you see the
list of files in c:/cygnus/lib.  Now since you had a directory
c:/cygnus/usr/lib with files already in it the mount points hide the files in
that directory.

You can safely re[move|name] /cygdrive/c/cygnus/usr/bin and
/cygdrive/c/cygnus/usr/lib but be sure to create empty directories of the same
name.

Cheers,

=====
Earnie Boyd
mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com

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