Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/07/23/21:02:57
>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.
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>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.
Please ignore this email if i am showing complete ignorance...
I have tried to follow this thread, but i probably got lost somewhere...
From what I saw ... I was under the impression that the problem was a slash
problem. Again probable ignorance, no access to cygwin to check my memory
at the moment. But i thought that \ implied mount would use dos style paths
and / implied mount would use unix style paths, for working out where it
mounts too. And therefore the problem was that the mounts were specified as
\ style paths rather the / style paths.
ofcourse I am probably just completely confused...
Gareth
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