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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 21:43:27 -0400
To: "Gareth Pearce" <tilps AT hotmail DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: Odd mount and path problem
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At 09:02 PM 7/23/2002, Gareth Pearce wrote:

>>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...


Yes, turns out you are.  It's no crime though. ;-)



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