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Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 14:16:36 -0500
To: dkarr AT tcsi DOT com (David M. Karr), cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: Moving from textmode to binmode: mount: resource busy
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At 01:50 PM 1/12/2001, 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.


umount /usr/bin first.


>When I get past this, what other issues should I expect, and can I
>deal with them?  


Good question.  There have traditionally been problems with script and
makefiles since these contain \r\n and shells and make would trip over 
these.  This shouldn't be a problem for bash/ash/sh and make anymore 
though.  It may still be a problem for other shells.  Remove the \r from
these files and you'll be fine or fix the offending utility by making it 
read text too.


>For instance, what do I have to do with "pdksh" and
>NTEmacs to work with this?


Dunno.



Larry Hall                              lhall AT rfk DOT com
RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
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