Subject: Re: /usr/bin and /usr/lib mount points (WAS: RE: telnet problems with current cygwin version)
From: Earnie Boyd <[email-masked]>
To: Peter Ring <[email-masked]>
Cc: "'Cygwin \(E-mail\)'" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 06:07:55 -0700 (PDT)

--- Peter Ring <[email-masked]> wrote:
-8<-
> 
> BTW, I'm also a bit perplexed about /bin vs. /usr/bin ... There's a
> discussion about it starting at about this message
-8<-

The reason for these mount points is that some UNIX utilities depend on the
existance of /usr/bin and/or /usr/lib.  With out these the utilities will fail
to work.  Knowing this, and not wanting to create duplication, it was decided
to just create mount points of the physical directories.

If you remove them (and you have the right to do so), then you risk not being
able to run some utilities.

Regards,

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