Mail Archives: cygwin-developers/1998/09/22/07:18:14
At 10:44 AM 9/22/98 +0400, Sergey Okhapkin wrote:
>Geoffrey Noer wrote:
>> I am tempted to suggest requiring that /foo/bar exist as of b20,
>> modifying mount() in winsup accordingly. That would have the
>> advantage of making mount()'s semantics much closer to Unix. But it
>> would also have the disadvantage of requiring physical directory mount
>> points which could be a bummer to have to cope with.
>>
>
>Even now many cygwin users creates "mount point" directories in order to filename completion in bash works.
>
I agree. I don't see a problem with forcing mount in this direction.
Since it has its roots in UNIX, making it work more like UNIX semantics
makes the use of the command less confusing rather than more...
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