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Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 05:57:13 -0500
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Subject: Re: CygwinPerl Q - interact with symlinked dir?
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On 20 Jan 2002 at 19:21, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:

> Another question:
> 
> >So I did this:
> >------------------------------------------------------------
> >$  ln -svdnf '/home/sorenboss/.cpan/' ~/.cpan
> >create symbolic link `/cdv/e/home/sorenboss/.cpan' to 
> >`/home/sorenboss/.cpan/'
> >------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Why didn't you mount this way:
> $ mount -s -b x:/cygwin/home/sorenboss/.cpan \
> > e:/home/sorenboss/.cpan
> ?
> 
> I use always mount for something like this.

Thanks. Well, it didn't occur to me to do that, is why. I have seldom mounted subdirs to subdirs, 
splicing something into the filesystem tree like that, and I think it is because I haven't understood 
mount very well, and therefore been nervous about what would happen. This is an area of the Cygwin 
documentation that could use some work, IMO.

 [ a little time passes..]

Looking at it again, I am *seriously* confused about what you are suggesting. I thought -- and I am not 
claiming (and have never claimed) to thoroughly understand `mount' -- but I thought that the last arg to 
mount had to be a POSIX path?? You seem to be supplying two win32/DOS paths as args to `mount'. 
Is this good to do?

  Thanks Gerrit!

     Soren Andersen


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