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Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 14:08:30 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Moving from textmode to binmode: mount: resource busy
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In-Reply-To: <uy8zogsiyv.fsf@tcsi.com>; from dkarr@tcsi.com on Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 10:50:32AM -0800

On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 10:50:32AM -0800, David M. Karr wrote:
>I want to explore the possibility of using binmode instead of
>textmode.  I successfully changed the default to binmode.  When I
>tried changing the mode on "/usr/bin", in an MSDOS shell with:
>
>   mount -b -s d:\cygwin\bin /usr/bin
>
>It said:
>
>   mount: /usr/bin: Device or resource busy
>
>I'm doing this from the root directory of a different drive, and I've
>killed every process that could possibly (AFAIK) have this open.
>
>I'd appreciate some information about this.

http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#MOUNT

cgf

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