Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: <20000309151154.1321.qmail@web122.yahoomail.com> Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 07:11:54 -0800 (PST) From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com Subject: Re: interesting behavior To: Eric Christopher , cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Cc: cgf AT cygnus DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- Eric Christopher wrote: > Okay. Here's a new one. > > I've got a directory structure / like this: > > bin contrib etc home > > I decide to mount contrib to where it actually is: > > 'mount g:\cygwin\contrib /contrib' > Umm... You're executing the command from bash. The \ is used for character quoting so you end up with g:cygwincontrib as the source directory. Just check the registry entry. From bash you could use `mount g:/cygwin/contrib /contrib' instead. > (this didn't acutally do anything) > It won't actually change anything when you get it correct either since g:\cygwin is mounted as /. It might even cause Cygwin to be slower since it adds to the hashing levels. > now ls / errors out with contrib not found, though g:\cygwin\contrib > really is there. > That is because it can't find g:cygwincontrib as a directory. > Any explainations? (Other than doctor it hurts when I do this! Don't do > that. *grin*) > > I think Chris must have been executing mount from DOS. ;^). ===== --- Earnie Boyd: __Cygwin: POSIX on Windows__ Cygwin Newbies: __Minimalist GNU for Windows__ Mingw32 List: Mingw Home: __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com