Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 13:19:07 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: umount doesn't umount Message-ID: <20020517171907.GL22415@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <4 DOT 3 DOT 1 DOT 2 DOT 20020516185007 DOT 02655348 AT pop DOT ma DOT ultranet DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 01:11:40PM -0400, David E Euresti wrote: >Allright let's escape the colon > >$ mount c: /blah\:drivec >mount: warning - /blah:drivec does not exist. > >$ cd /blah\:drivec >bash: cd: /blah:drivec: No such file or directory > >$ cd /blah:drivec >bash: cd: /blah:drivec: No such file or directory > >$ umount /blah\:drivec >umount: /blah:drivec: Invalid argument > >$ umount /blah:drivec >umount: /blah:drivec: Invalid argument > >$ mount >C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode) >C:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode) >C:\cygwin on / type system (binmode) >c: on /blah:drivec type user (textmode) > >However unix pathnames do allow for colons and I thought the point of >using mount is that we could use stuff that unix pathnames use like / >that Windows can't. Cygwin is probably interpreting the existence of a colon in the filename as an indication that the path should be considered to be an MS-DOS path. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/