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: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 09:23:01 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: How to execute bash file under /usr/bin despite setting PATH="/us r/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:$PATH" Message-ID: <20031205142301.GE8193@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 In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 09:59:15AM +0100, J?rg Schaible wrote: >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. Nah. It's just because we are so frigging mean. WASFM cgf -- 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/