From: sarnold AT coyote DOT rain DOT org (Stephen L Arnold) Subject: Re: /, /etc, & mounts under win95 (was stupid newbie questions...) 31 Aug 1998 05:43:12 -0700 Message-ID: <199808310326.UAA01443.cygnus.gnu-win32@coyote.rain.org> References: <6DA86DEBF68AD1119B1C00A0C94D23069C1483 AT hopper DOT logica DOT co DOT uk> Reply-To: sarnold AT earthling DOT net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com On 29 Aug 98, Fieldhouse, Dirk had this to say: > On Wed, 26 Aug 98 , Stephen L Arnold wrote: > >...> [mounting on /usr] > > These directories (as such) don't exist on my machine; how can they > > work? Don't they have to point to the right places? And what are the > > right places under the cygwin directory structure? > > It's a known feature that the mounted-on directory (/usr, etc) doesn't > need to be created - unlike real U**x. However IMHO this is desirable > because a c:\usr directory would just clutter up the directory structure > for non-Cygwin tools. Are you saying there's a difference between directories created under win95 (within the cygwin tree) and dirs created (and/or mounted) from bash? Why do I need more mount points besides floppy, tape, and root? (assuming I'm just going to use the one partition) [snip] > > What is /etc good for under win95? > > termcap, profile, to name 2. Wait a minute, I already have all those mysterious default environment variables (where are they coming from?); why would I need an /etc/profile, since I already have a .bashrc (and I'm the only one who will be using it)? Thanks, Steve - 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".