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 Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 18:00:22 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: What's going on here with directory contents? Message-ID: <20021024220022.GA981@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <3DB81476.E6E0B32B@yahoo.com> <009501c27b75$f688dd70$78d96f83@pomello> <3DB82B64.68A8C81C@yahoo.com> <3DB864C5.5060405@cotagesoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3DB864C5.5060405@cotagesoft.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 02:23:17PM -0700, Shankar Unni wrote: >On 10/24/2002 10:18 AM, CBFalconer wrote: > >>That seems to tell me how to get the effect, but nothing about >>what is going on. I would expect to see some sort of hidden file >>in ...\usr\bin to cause the effect, but there is nothing there. > >Oh, you want to know how mount works.. > >Well, the "open" cygwin call (and any others that need name resolution) >go through a special layer in cygwin that does mount point resolution: >when the prefix of the path matches a mount point, it is replaced with >the mount expansion, and the name interpretation is resumed. Wow. Very nice summation. cgf -- 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/