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Richard Foulk wrote:
> Give mount(1) nonexistent hosts or directories and it will complain,
> but it still populates the mount table as if it succeeded.
> 
> It also always returns zero, for success or failure.


Cygwin's mount is a different bird than on Unix.  It really is just a mapping
table of POSIX names to DOS or UNC-style paths.  It is not required that the
POSIX path exist for things to work.  But since most people coming from a UNIX
background expect that it does and it certainly helps things like shell
path completion if the paths do already exist, you get a warning to let you
know about this difference.


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