Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 14:08:30 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Moving from textmode to binmode: mount: resource busy Message-ID: <20010112140830.D9768@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: ; from dkarr@tcsi.com on Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 10:50:32AM -0800 On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 10:50:32AM -0800, David M. Karr wrote: >I want to explore the possibility of using binmode instead of >textmode. I successfully changed the default to binmode. When I >tried changing the mode on "/usr/bin", in an MSDOS shell with: > > mount -b -s d:\cygwin\bin /usr/bin > >It said: > > mount: /usr/bin: Device or resource busy > >I'm doing this from the root directory of a different drive, and I've >killed every process that could possibly (AFAIK) have this open. > >I'd appreciate some information about this. http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#MOUNT cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple