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On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Brian Keener
<bkeenerReMoVeAnTiSpAm AT thesoftwaresource DOT com> wrote:
> Dave Korn wrote:
>> > But as I say I am probably overthinking this for the Cygwin on Windows
>> > environment - does it really care if I change cd's without a unmount and
>> > then mount?
>>
>>   'mount' and 'unmount' are utterly different kinds of beast on Cygwin as
>> they are on the Linux platform; they don't do the same job, and in any case
>> that job doesn't even need doing.
>
> Thanks Dave and Corinna for the response and clarification - just as I
> thought - I was overthinking it.
>
> bk


Keep in mind that cygwin is not Linux/Unix, it's CYGWIN.  It makes
life on Windows much easier by being "unix-LIKE", but it's not unix.

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