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Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 11:07:52 -0500
From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
To: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Cc: Eric Christopher <echristo AT cygnus DOT com>, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: interesting behavior
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In-Reply-To: <20000309151154.1321.qmail@web122.yahoomail.com>; from earnie_boyd@yahoo.com on Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 07:11:54AM -0800

On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 07:11:54AM -0800, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>--- Eric Christopher <echristo AT cygnus DOT com> wrote:
>> Okay.  Here's a new one.
>> 
>> I've got a directory structure / like this:
>> 
>> bin contrib etc home <few other things>
>> 
>> 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.

Hey!  Good catch, Earnie!  I completely missed that.

>> (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.

Actually, it might be a little faster depending on the size of the mount
table since the table is not hashed.  It is sorted in reverse length order
so '/' is always matched last.

cgf

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