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 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Thorsten Kampe Subject: Re: cygwin: /proc and /cygdrive insvisible Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 14:24:58 +0200 Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <259762D2-D3CB-11D8-91ED-000393CE9342@kreisbote.de> <20040712080301.GA6160@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <1p43umagjsh16$.dlg@thorstenkampe.de> <20040713122116.GB4061@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: isi-dial-142-98.isionline-dialin.de User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.12.1de * Corinna Vinschen (2004-07-13 14:21 +0200) > On Jul 13 13:30, Thorsten Kampe wrote: >> * Oliver Geisen (2004-07-13 08:26 +0200) >>>>> is there a reason (i bet there is :-) why the /proc and /cygdrive >>>>> directory isn't visible when "ls -l /" ? >>>> cd / >>>> mkdir proc cygdrive >>> Sounds easy. But unfortunately it doesn't work for the /proc. >>> The command executes but after that there is still no directory visible >>> via LS. >> >> Exactly: >> >> thorsten@galactus% mkdir /proc >> mkdir: created directory `/proc' >> thorsten@galactus% ls -al / >> [etc] > > Just create a directory proc from Windows Explorer. From Cygwin's point > of view the directory already exists, even though it's plain virtual. You misunderstood my intention: creating a "real" /proc has no benefit and isn't neccessary. /cygdrive is different - I always create that folder with explorer. -- 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/