X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Matthew Woehlke Subject: Re: Mount command warning with latest cygwin1.dll snapshot Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 17:32:28 -0600 Lines: 63 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Thunderbird/1.5.0.7 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 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 Karl M wrote: > Matthew Woehlke wrote: >> Karl M wrote: >>> I just tried out the latest snapshot and my bat file to clean up my >>> mounts now gives warning messages. The current released version of >>> cygwin1.dll does not produce the warnings. >>> >>> Z:\>C:\Cygwin\bin\mount -f -s -b C:/Cygwin / >>> cygwin warning: >>> MS-DOS style path detected: Z:\ >>> Preferred POSIX equivalent is: /z >>> CYGWIN environment variable option "nodosfilewarning" turns off this >>> warning. >>> Consult the user's guide for more details about POSIX paths: >>> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames >> >> This looks like something is going wrong when running Cygwin programs >> ('mount', at least) from a DOS prompt. Does this produce any output? >> >> Z:\> C:\Cygwin\bin\env | C:\Cygwin\bin\grep Z: > > Yes. It shows my HOMEDRIVE environment variable. Huh, Cygwin shouldn't care about that AFAIK. I might be wrong, but your later test does seem to point at $PWD/getcwd() as the culprit. >> What happens if you run the file from a different directory? Does the >> warning always reflect the current directory? > > Try a smaller and simple test. Type "mount -m" and look at the output. > > $ mount -m > mount -f -s -b "C:/Cygwin/bin" "/usr/bin" > mount -f -s -b "C:/Cygwin/lib" "/usr/lib" > mount -f -s -b "C:/Cygwin" "/" > mount -s -t --change-cygdrive-prefix "/" > > The above is my output from "mount -m". Now type the mount command for > the Cygwin root, in my case > > $ mount -f -s -b "C:/Cygwin" "/" > cygwin warning: > MS-DOS style path detected: C:\Cygwin > Preferred POSIX equivalent is: / > CYGWIN environment variable option "nodosfilewarning" turns off this > warning. > Consult the user's guide for more details about POSIX paths: > http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames Huh. This was from a bash shell this time? It looks like 'mount' with some set of those particular options is tripping this erroneously. WCTS I have no idea why that would be. I am hoping someone more familiar with 'mount' (Corinna, maybe?) will jump in here with some ideas (or you could CTS yourself?). > Reverting to the released cygwin1.dll eliminates the warning. Probably because the current cygwin1.dll does not have this warning? -- Matthew "Try to bring it back in one piece this time." -- Q (MI6) -- 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/