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From: "Dave Korn" <dave DOT korn AT artimi DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: textmount/binmount issue
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 12:45:11 +0100
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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.  <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC>.
>>>> 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....


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