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 sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-ID: <20001214145145.6576.qmail@web112.yahoomail.com> Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 06:51:45 -0800 (PST) From: Earnie Boyd Subject: Re: strange phenomena To: Wise Man , cygwin AT cygwin DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- Wise Man wrote: > I installed "cygwin" under "c:\cygnus" (due to > historical reasons). > When I "ls /cygdrive/c/cygnus/usr/lib" I see some > files, but on "ls /usr/lib" I see different files. How > can it be? This isn't strange. Cygwin uses /usr/bin and /usr/lib as mount points. Those points must be physical directories on the disk. These directories are usually but don't have to be empty. When the mount points are mounted they point to the physical drive and directory and thus when you `ls /usr/lib' you see the list of files in c:/cygnus/lib. Now since you had a directory c:/cygnus/usr/lib with files already in it the mount points hide the files in that directory. You can safely re[move|name] /cygdrive/c/cygnus/usr/bin and /cygdrive/c/cygnus/usr/lib but be sure to create empty directories of the same name. Cheers, ===== Earnie Boyd mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com --- --- --- Cygwin: POSIX on Windows --- --- Minimalist GNU for Windows --- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com