From: corinna DOT vinschen AT cityweb DOT de (Corinna Vinschen)
Subject: Re: mount() semantics
23 Sep 1998 15:45:37 -0700
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To: Trevor Yann <TYann AT vet DOT com DOT au>, cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com

Trevor Yann wrote:
> 
> I like the idea of forcing the directory to exist, but we have to be able

I agree.

> to cope with the directory being later deleted from outside the cygwin32
> environment. Perhaps we could check this at startup, and remove/disable
> mounts where the unerlying directory no longer exists.
> 

I would prefer, if my mount point will not be erased in this case.
The standard error message would do it, e.g. if /usr is missed:

bash$ cd /usr/include
/usr/include: No such file or directory.

Corinna