X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4AC205FB.1030401@cygwin.com> Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:04:59 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090320 Remi/2.0.0.21-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin portable bash References: <4AC03276.8010308@cygwin.com> <4AC19249.2010404@djandyj.com> In-Reply-To: <4AC19249.2010404@djandyj.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 09/29/2009 12:51 AM, Andy Holt wrote: > ok, all apologies. I am familiar with mount, but if there is something > extra special about how it works w/in cygwin I will check the Users > Guide. I appreciate the direction, sorry I misunderstood (thought he was > just telling me to 'man mount' and I felt that would be a waste of time > since I am already familiar with the general of mount and the different > basic linux mount points like bin and / and swap etc). The semantics of Cygwin's mount are different than that of traditional Unix/Linux. Principally, Cygwin's mount is responsible for mapping DOS paths into POSIX paths. It does not mount file-systems at the driver level like Unix/Linux. > However, I also did not realize I was using an outdated version of > cygwin!! Perhaps I should work off of 1.7 instead of 1.5? This sounds > like it would probably make things a bit easier. is 1.7 stable enough? 1.7 is officially Beta (http://cygwin.com/#beta-test) but is very close to release. Which you choose to use is up to you. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple