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 From: "Dave Korn" To: Subject: RE: textmount/binmount issue Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 12:45:11 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <20051025002252.GA3656@efn.org> Message-ID: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 05:56:36PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >> On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 11:05:13AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >>>> Looks like the cygdrive prefix takes precedence over explicit mounts. >>>> This is arguably a bug. . >>>> Corinna or Chris, care to comment? >>> >>> My name doesn't start with C, but I will comment that if the precedence >>> went the other way, a mount like: >>> >>> mount c:/foo /cygdrive/d >>> >>> would make a windows path d:\bar have no posix translation. >> >> How is this different from >> >> mount c:/baz /somemount >> mount c:/foo /somemount/d >> >> (except for the fact that /cygdrive/d is an automount)? I'm actually not >> sure what's meant by "posix translation" in this context... > > For example, assume a windows PATH=d:\bar. What does a cygwin program > convert PATH to at startup? d:\\bar or d:/bar > There would be no equivlent, ... apart from those two! cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/