X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Matthew Woehlke Subject: Re: bash: tar: command not found Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:09:48 -0500 Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <461D6DBB.1000301@cygwin.com> <461D7F29.10405@cygwin.com> <014a01c77d17$0206ac20$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> 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:1.8.0.10) Gecko/20070221 Thunderbird/1.5.0.10 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: 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 PCYMTNQREAIYR, especially don't quote cygwin AT cygwin DOT com! Jeff Hawk wrote: > Thorsten Kampe wrote: >> \cygwin\usr\bin and \cygwin\usr\lib are /real/ directories created by >> the initial Cygwin installation routine. He shouldn't delete those >> directories - just keep them empty... > > Not true... > > I have Cygwin installed and there is NO c:\cygwin\usr\bin directory > > As has been mentioned before, /usr/bin is a *mount* point, not a real directory. Just saying that is only half the story (and somewhat misleading), as Cygwin is actually "odd" in allowing this non-standard behavior. On most POSIX systems, a "real directory" is *required* for a mount point. The "shadowing" behavior Igor mentioned is normal in the POSIX world. However it does appear to be the case that the current 1.5.x Cygwin fully "pretends" that the mount points exist for you without actually requiring real directories. -- Matthew GDRLaH - Grin, Duck, and Run Like a Hippo! :-) -- 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/