X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Matthew Woehlke Subject: Re: Mount command warning with latest cygwin1.dll snapshot Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 13:42:14 -0600 Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Thunderbird/1.5.0.7 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 Karl M wrote: > I just tried out the latest snapshot and my bat file to clean up my > mounts now gives warning messages. The current released version of > cygwin1.dll does not produce the warnings. > > Z:\>C:\Cygwin\bin\mount -f -s -b C:/Cygwin / > cygwin warning: > MS-DOS style path detected: Z:\ > Preferred POSIX equivalent is: /z > CYGWIN environment variable option "nodosfilewarning" turns off this > warning. > Consult the user's guide for more details about POSIX paths: > http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames This looks like something is going wrong when running Cygwin programs ('mount', at least) from a DOS prompt. Does this produce any output? Z:\> C:\Cygwin\bin\env | C:\Cygwin\bin\grep Z: What happens if you run the file from a different directory? Does the warning always reflect the current directory? -- Matthew "Try to bring it back in one piece this time." -- Q (MI6) -- 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/