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: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 13:02:18 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Unwanted .exe appended to symlinks Message-ID: <20050709170218.GD11356@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <1120880636.6400.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> <42CFD190.2060109@byu.net> <1120928428.5677.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1120928428.5677.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 06:00:28PM +0100, fergus wrote: >Thanks for your very rapid and informative responses, and also the >suggestions and references http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_toc.html#TOC53) >(How can I access other drives?) to using mounts rather than symlinks. > >Alol the same I've got a small preference for > ln -s /cygdrive/h h >over > mkdir /h; mount -fsb h:/ /h >which is probably easily addressed, but it is as follows. > >Both instructions are intended to be issue-once-only. With the former >arrangement (symlinks) the command > find / >(usually with qualifications of course) finds only folders on the root >filesystem. If I want to include devices then additionally I > mkdir /cygdrive >and lo! the command find / includes all the linked devices. Whereas, >with the latter arrangement (mounts) the command > find / >always includes the mounted devices; not usually, or certainly not >often, what I want. Sounds like you need to investigate "find -xdev". -- 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/