Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20020507162139.026723f0@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 16:40:59 -0400 To: "Conrad Scott" , From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: Mount point not visible in ls In-Reply-To: <003d01c1f600$e1849540$6132bc3e@BABEL> References: <001201c1f516$37f9d4d0$6132bc3e@BABEL> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 03:53 PM 5/7/2002, Conrad Scott wrote: >Thanks to all those who suggested, correctly, that my problem would have >been caused by the mount point (/usr/bin) having been deleted. I had my Un*x >head on, where you can't mount on a non-existent mount point. > >While on this subject, what is the rationale for this to work in cygwin (w/ >only a warning if performed interactively)? The result, where the mounted >directory is only visible to certain commands, seems liable to generate >confusion (or maybe I've been the only one?). You can check the email archive on this if you're interested in the detailed history. The short-form is the implementation is just a mapping, so there's really no requirement that the directory exists. One could envision this as something more complicated but that's really all it is. However, it's because of the UNIX mind-set with the like-named command that the current "mount" warns when the directory doesn't exist. There hasn't been a reason to add more semantics to make it more like the UNIX equivalent in this regard however and there are benefits to not doing so. Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/