Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-ID: <005501bfd70b$619cc7a0$a8a11dcb@ihug.co.nz> From: "Ross Smith" To: "'Cygwin \(E-mail\)'" References: <20000615130755.20768.qmail@web113.yahoomail.com> Subject: Re: /usr/bin and /usr/lib mount points (WAS: RE: telnet problems with current cygwin version) Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 08:50:47 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 From: "Earnie Boyd" > > 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. But why are they mount points instead of ordinary directories? Normal Unix systems don't do it that way, so there certainly aren't any utilities that depend on it. Why not just create /usr/bin and /usr/lib as empty directories? -- Ross Smith The Internet Group, Auckland, New Zealand ======================================================================== "So that's 2 T-1s and a newsfeed ... would you like clues with that?" -- Peter Da Silva -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com