Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/07/23/14:52:23
Robinow, David wrote:
>>From: Larry V. Streepy, Jr. [mailto:streepy AT healthlanguage DOT com]
>>Subject: Re: Odd mount and path problem
>>
>>Excellent description David, thanks.
>>
>>I was giving too much "unix" smarts to the process and
>>assuming my D:/
>>mount on / was properly implying that /bin also resides on D:.
>>
> Well, actually unix works the same way. I use several machines where
> /usr/local is on a different drive than /usr.
I know how Unix works, I've got 20 years of Unix history. I fully
understand how mount operations work under Unix. The issue here is how
cygwin interprets paths with regard to drive letters. I made the
mistake of assuming that the drive letter for / would be inherited by
all things mounted on / unless otherwise specified.
>>This is an area that the user guide could definitely use work on.
>>
> Maybe, but see above.
> cygwin, if I remember that far back, was originally intended as a tool for
> relatively experience unix folks to be able to run their stuff on Windows.
> The documentation to some extent reflects that. There's very little "Intro
> to Unix for Windows users" type of information. It might be nice if somebody
> contributed something like that. However, I don't think adding a lot of
> "Oh, by the way, if you don't know anything about Unix, blah blah blah ..."
> stuff to each section of documentation is the way to go.
>
>>Again, thanks to all who helped answer this problem and shed light on
>>what appears to be a misunderstood area.
This has nothing to do with being a Unix novice. It's about a
conceptual model for how cygwin merges the world of Unix and Windows. I
don't need a primer on Unix, I need a description of how cygwin makes
the two worlds work together. Personally, I think some critical
information, as revealed in the last few emails, is missing from the
user guide. Being an expert in both worlds wouldn't have made this
clear. The one paragraph description that you provided did, and it
should be in the user guide or at least in the FAQ.
Please don't take this wrong, I am truly appreciative of the help
provided. But my misunderstanding had nothing to do with a lack of
understanding of either OS. My guess is that other folks are in the
same boat. I didn't have the time to go read the source code, so I had
to work off the information that I had available at the time. It just
wasn't sufficient to resolve the problem.
Thanks again.
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