X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 12:26:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Dave Korn cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: virtual dirs bug In-Reply-To: <040a01c6acd5$8496e190$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> Message-ID: References: <040a01c6acd5$8496e190$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Fri, 21 Jul 2006, Dave Korn wrote: > STC: > > dk@rainbow /> mkdir mnt > dk@rainbow /> cd mnt > dk@rainbow /mnt> mkdir foo > dk@rainbow /mnt> ls > foo > dk@rainbow /mnt> mount -s C:\\ /mnt/foo/ > dk@rainbow /mnt> mount -u C:\\ /mnt/foo/ > dk@rainbow /mnt> mount | grep foo > C: on /mnt/foo type user (binmode) > C: on /mnt/foo type system (binmode) > dk@rainbow /mnt> ls > foo foo > dk@rainbow /mnt> > > I take it this is not desired behaviour, and that the right thing > would be for the system-mount to override - and hence hide - the > user-mount? If so, I could whip up a patch over the weekend. Definitely not desired, but historically user mounts overrode system mounts (the rationale being that the user can always change user mounts, but not everyone has permissions to change the system ones). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- 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/