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Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 05:39:33 -0700 (PDT)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: weird mount/ls behaviour
To: Matt <matt AT use DOT net>, cygwin-developers AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
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--- Matt <matt AT use DOT net> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 02:36:27PM -0700, Matt wrote:
> > >mount never seems to return an error if it can't qualify the win32
> > >path supplied.
> >
> > Correct.  It never has and it is not intended to do so, AFAIK.
> 
> huh, ok. Why does 'ls' not show the bad mount point at all and 'ls -l' does?
> This was the weird behaviour part of my report.
> 

It's an invalid mount point, results are unpredicatable and undefined.  The
patch will eliminate that type of invalid mount point by not allowing it to
occur.

Cheers,

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