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 content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: RE: How to execute bash file under /usr/bin despite setting PATH="/us r/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:$PATH" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 09:59:15 +0100 Message-ID: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6249.0 X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg_Schaible?= To: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id hB58xXCg023839 Jon A. Lambert wrote on Thursday, December 04, 2003 7:03 PM: > "Nguyen, Huu-Dung" wrote: >> Thank for the answers >> >> Can any gurus tell me what is the real use of /usr/bin as a mount >> point and /usr/bin as a physically existing directory in the Cygwin >> directory ? Sometime i am too much curious !? >> >> Nguyen > > I'm stumped as I can't think of any use. > Why did you create the physical directory? It is the way mount works (in any Unix)! You can force a mount without a mount point, but ls the parent directory and you see why. The only question you could arise for Cygwin here is why they use a mount at all for /usr/bin, but that's in the FAQ although I suppose it is more for historical reasons and the (unnecessary) hassle that would arise separating these directories now. Regards, Jörg -- 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/