From: cgf AT bbc DOT com (Christopher Faylor)
Subject: Re: Mounts and relative pathnames
11 Mar 1998 02:41:47 -0800
Message-ID: <EpM7Bt.4r7.cygnus.gnu-win32@bbc.com>
References: <Pine DOT BSF DOT 3 DOT 96 DOT 980309114827 DOT 323A-100000 AT localhost>
Reply-To: cgf AT bbc DOT com
To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

In article <Pine DOT BSF DOT 3 DOT 96 DOT 980309114827 DOT 323A-100000 AT localhost>,
Kenneth Chiu  <chiuk AT cs DOT indiana DOT edu> wrote:
>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.

I think this is a bug.  It has been around since B18 at least.
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