X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4E612226.7060207@etr-usa.com> Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2011 12:36:22 -0600 From: Warren Young User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; rv:6.0.1) Gecko/20110830 Thunderbird/6.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cygwin-L Subject: Re: shutdown doesn't do anything, winXP References: <4E5FD423.4090506@molconn.com> <20110902092024.GC22172@calimero.vinschen.de> <4E6111DF.10502@molconn.com> In-Reply-To: <4E6111DF.10502@molconn.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 9/2/2011 11:26 AM, LMH wrote: > > As an aside, why does which shutdown return /usr/bin/shutdown when the > shutdown app is located in /bin/shutdown? What value does the /usr part > of the path have in this context? /bin and /usr/bin are the same thing by default under Cygwin. c:\cygwin is mounted as root, and then c:\cygwin\bin is mounted as /usr/bin. I imagine one could change this behavior with /etc/fstab, if one wanted. "which" is using /usr/bin in your case simply because that was found first in your PATH environment variable. -- 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