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 X-Originating-IP: [129.78.64.17] From: "Gareth Pearce" To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Odd mount and path problem Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 01:02:44 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 24 Jul 2002 01:02:44.0957 (UTC) FILETIME=[D1C058D0:01C232AD] >Robinow, David wrote: > >>>From: Larry V. Streepy, Jr. [mailto:streepy AT healthlanguage DOT com] >>>Subject: Re: Odd mount and path problem >>> >>>Excellent description David, thanks. >>> >>>I was giving too much "unix" smarts to the process and >>>assuming my D:/ >>>mount on / was properly implying that /bin also resides on D:. >>> >> Well, actually unix works the same way. I use several machines where >>/usr/local is on a different drive than /usr. > > > >I know how Unix works, I've got 20 years of Unix history. I fully >understand how mount operations work under Unix. The issue here is how >cygwin interprets paths with regard to drive letters. I made the >mistake of assuming that the drive letter for / would be inherited by >all things mounted on / unless otherwise specified. Please ignore this email if i am showing complete ignorance... I have tried to follow this thread, but i probably got lost somewhere... From what I saw ... I was under the impression that the problem was a slash problem. Again probable ignorance, no access to cygwin to check my memory at the moment. But i thought that \ implied mount would use dos style paths and / implied mount would use unix style paths, for working out where it mounts too. And therefore the problem was that the mounts were specified as \ style paths rather the / style paths. ofcourse I am probably just completely confused... Gareth _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com -- 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/