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Date:	Thu, 31 Mar 2005 21:49:56 -0500 (EST)
From:	Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
Reply-To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To:	Luke Kendall <luke DOT kendall AT cisra DOT canon DOT com DOT au>
cc:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: Path confusion
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On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Luke Kendall wrote:

> On 23 Mar, Brian Dessent wrote:
> >  Luke Kendall wrote:
> >
> > > Here's something that stunned me: I see different contents of a
> > > directory I want to be "empty-ish" (c:/cygwin/home), depending on how I
> > > refer to it.  I think it's because sometimes, "c:/cygwin" == "/".
> > >
> > > $ cygpath -m /
> > > C:/cygwin
> > >
> > > $ ls c:/cygwin/home
> > > 00-THIS-DIRECTORY-SHOULD-BE-EMPTY.txt
> > >
> > > $ cd c:/cygwin/home
> >
> >  I think it's because when you 'cd' the path is normalized.  After "cd
> >  c:/cygwin/home" the current working directory is now /home.  If you do
> >  "ls /home" you should see the contents of the mount, if you do "ls
> >  c:/cygwin/home" you'll see the contents of that directory itself.  In
> >  other words mounting something on "/home" only affects paths that start
> >  with "/home".  If you want "c:/cygwin/home" to actually be "d:/home"
> >  then make it a symlink.
> >
> >  Brian
>
> The problem is then that there are two /home directories: the real
> /home that's mounted on, say d:/home, and the fake /home, formed by
> re-writing "c:/cygwin" as "/", and tacking on the home subdirectory.
>
> I think the solution is that I simply have to remove or rename
> c:/cygwin/home.

FWIW, this still won't allow you to access /home via c:/cygwin/home...
	Igor
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