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: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 13:27:31 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Remounting /cygdrive/c as /c Message-ID: <20030721172731.GB2929@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <003e01c34f52$313d9d60$19c3fea9@RAnderson> <3F1BF810.6010709@cygwin.com> <064201c34f94$edb0b1c0$6c0aa8c0@adexainc.com> <3F1BFDFA.7010302@cygwin.com> <066d01c34fa2$82d8d310$6c0aa8c0@adexainc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <066d01c34fa2$82d8d310$6c0aa8c0@adexainc.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 12:09:48PM -0400, Rob wrote: >Yeah, sorry for not putting in any detail. The reason why I suggested this >is because I've had the same problem, and restarting solved it. I can't say >for sure, but I'm guessing that the change doesn't take effect until the >cygwin dll gets loaded into memory. For the record, this is not the way things are supposed to work. A cygdrive change should be recognized instaneously by all cygwin processes. I suspect that this particular problem was due to a user-mode cygdrive mount taking precedence over the system mode. cygcheck output would have confirmed or denied that theory, of course. cgf -- Please use the resources at cygwin.com rather than sending personal email. Special for spam email harvesters: send email to aaaspam@sourceware.org and be permanently blocked from mailing lists at sources.redhat.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/