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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 14:21:16 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: cygwin: /proc and /cygdrive insvisible
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On Jul 13 13:30, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> * Oliver Geisen (2004-07-13 08:26 +0200)
> >>> is there a reason (i bet there is :-) why the /proc and /cygdrive
> >>> directory isn't visible when "ls -l /" ?
> >>   cd /
> >>   mkdir proc cygdrive
> > Sounds easy. But unfortunately it doesn't work for the /proc.
> > The command executes but after that there is still no directory visible 
> > via LS.
> 
> Exactly:
> 
> thorsten AT galactus% mkdir /proc
> mkdir: created directory `/proc'
> thorsten AT galactus% ls -al /
> [etc]

Just create a directory proc from Windows Explorer.  From Cygwin's point
of view the directory already exists, even though it's plain virtual.

Corinna

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