Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: <75F8791C7793D211B64D080036DE1504151C75@milton.sonosight.com> From: "Stewart, Wayne" To: "Stewart, Wayne" , "'Suhaib M. Siddiqi'" , "'cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com'" Subject: RE: HELP! - Please Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 12:12:13 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Suhaib, With respect to question #3 below (my original problem), your suggestions do not appear to make a difference: bash$ cmd.exe /c 'dir C:\D' Volume in drive C has no label. Volume Serial Number is 4036-DAAB Directory of C:\D 04/23/99 11:38a . 04/23/99 11:38a .. 2 File(s) 0 bytes 1,986,461,696 bytes free bash$ mount Device Directory Type Flags d: /d native text!=binary C: / native text!=binary bash$ cat /tmp/junk #!/bin/sh echo "Test executing a shell script from cygtclsh80" bash$ /tmp/junk Test executing a shell script from cygtclsh80 bash$ cygtclsh80 % /tmp/junk couldn't execute "\tmp\junk": no such file or directory % exec /tmp/junk couldn't execute "\tmp\junk": no such file or directory % exit bash$ > -----Original Message----- > From: Stewart, Wayne > Sent: Friday, April 23, 1999 11:46 AM > To: 'Suhaib M. Siddiqi'; Stewart, Wayne; cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com > Subject: RE: HELP! - Please > > > > > > bash$ mount -b c: /cb > > > Warning: /cb does not exist! > > > > Are you trying to mount C: on "cb" ithout creating a cb > > directory? > > > > If so this will fail under UNIX too. > > > > I know it fails under UNIX, but under Cygwin it > just gives a warning - and things appear to work > OK afterwards, despite the warning. If Cygwin > requires a directory to exist prior to the mount > in order to function properly, then this should > be an error (as on UNIX) and not a warning. > > So now we have 3 questions: > > 1) Do you need a directory to exist before > mounting on the directory (like UNIX), if so, > why just a warning? > > 2) If you have a drive mounted twice onto two > different directories (e.g. one with text=binary > and the other with text!=binary), how does the > system decide what tree you're in? Order of > mount entries in registry? Always picks the > binary tree? > > 3) My original cygtchsh80 problem. Can anyone > else reproduce it? (It's simple to try to > reproduce.) If not, what could be different > in my Cygwin setup? mounts? installing on > D: ? something else? > > Thanks, > Wayne > -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com