X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Shankar Unni Subject: Re: setup - duplicating cygwin Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 12:00:41 -0700 Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <20060620101424 DOT GA26049 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060516 Thunderbird/1.5.0.4 Mnenhy/0.7.3.0 In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 Jim Easton wrote: > cd /cygdrive/c/cygwin > cd proc > For which I received the message: > "bash: cd: proc: No such file or directory" Of course. As you surmised, these two are *NOT* the same. The literal path "/proc" (and "/dev") are treated specially. Unlike on linux, "mount" is not modifying the kernel layer below to create a file system linkage - it's all in the emulation layer for open() in cygwin1.dll.. You can't cd to "/" using a native win32 shell, for instance, and see any of these mount points.. -- 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/