X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:22:07 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Running Linux Application on Windows Message-ID: <20081125162207.GA6541@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20677518 DOT post AT talk DOT nabble DOT com> <492BE083 DOT 6060406 AT etr-usa DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <492BE083.6060406@etr-usa.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: 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 On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 04:24:51AM -0700, Warren Young wrote: > Emil Tan wrote: >> Is the documentation kinda wrong? > > Yes, but that's something you'll have to take up with the people who > maintain that file, presumably on the Samhain mailing list. Whoever wrote > it doesn't realize that /usr, /home, etc aren't created in c:\, they're > mount(1) aliases for directories that actually live in c:\cygwin, by > default. Right. Just to be clear if that is what the documentation tells you to do it is frighteningly wrong. cgf -- 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/