From: earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: Re: Mounts and relative pathnames 10 Mar 1998 14:45:40 -0800 Message-ID: <19980310124308.20991.qmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain To: chiuk AT cs DOT indiana DOT edu Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com >Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:58:57 -0500 (EST) >From: Kenneth Chiu >To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com >Subject: Mounts and relative pathnames > >I seem to have a problem with 'ls' and relative pathnames. I have >searched the FAQ and the mailing list archives, but haven't found >anything. Suppose I do the following sequence: > > mount N:/root / > mount N:/dir1 /usr > cd / > ls usr > >I would expect to see the contents of N:/dir1, but instead I see >nothing. If I type 'ls /usr', I see what I expect, so I think I'm >executing the correct 'ls'. If I type 'cd usr', and then 'ls', I >also see what I expect. Here is what my mount table actually looks >like: > >Device Directory Type Flags >N:\Cygnus\B19\H-i386-cygwin32 /usr native text!=binary >N:\tmp /tmp native text!=binary >\\.\tape1: /dev/st1 native text!=binary >\\.\tape0: /dev/st0 native text!=binary >\\.\b: /dev/fd1 native text!=binary >\\.\a: /dev/fd0 native text!=binary >N:\root / native text!=binary > Is there a physical directory name N:\root\usr? If so then things will get confused/confusing. Cygwin.dll will not know how to handle this instance, and will not handle it the same everytime. As an aside, I don't know how you are going to use cygwin32 but if you plan to port any UNIX code you will need to modify your mounts to be text=binary. Check out the archives and FAQ for this. - \\||// ---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o---- -earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com- ------ooo0O--O0ooo------- Check out these great gnu-win32 related sites: ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/gnu-win32/latest/ (ftp site) http://www.cygnus.com/pubs/gnupro/ (Comercial Page) http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/ (Project Page) http://www.cygnus.com/ml/gnu-win32 (Mail Archives) http://www.itribe.net/virtunix/winhelp-man-pages/ (HTML Man Pages) http://www.lexa.ru/sos (Sergey Okhapkin) ftp://www.lexa.ru/pub/domestic/sos/ (Sergey's ftp site) http://www.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp/~colin/gcc.html (Colin Peters) http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/ (Mumit Khan) http://gnu-win32.paranoia.ru (Chuck Bogorad's ports) ftp://ftp.deninc.com/pub (Den Internet Services - US mirror and ports) http://www.bestweb.net/~aka/gnu-win32/ (GNU-Win32 Bash Configuration) http://rcw.home.ml.org/ (Rob Warner - software ports) http://www.wenet.net/~garbanzo/gnuwin32/ (more - software portals) http://www.wenet.net/~garbanzo/gnuwin32/rpm (Redhat Package Manager) http://www.parallax.co.uk/~andyp/index_text.html (Andy Piper - ports) SEARCH ENGINES WITH gnu-win32 mail archive RELATED INDICIES: http://www.findmail.com http://www.search.com add gnu-win32 or gnuwin32 to the search criteria. Help for Win32 Beginners: http://www.relisoft.com ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".