From: bje AT cygnus DOT com (Ben Elliston)
Subject: Re: mount() semantics
21 Sep 1998 19:55:02 -0700
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To: Geoffrey Noer <noer AT cygnus DOT com>
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> Under Unix, /foo/bar would have to be a valid directory.  Under
> Cygwin32, it does not.  Even worse, /foo doesn't even have to exist so
> if you cd into /foo/bar, and then try to cd .., an error results.
> I'm pretty convinced something needs to change.

> I am tempted to suggest requiring that /foo/bar exist as of b20,
> modifying mount() in winsup accordingly.  That would have the
> advantage of making mount()'s semantics much closer to Unix.  But it
> would also have the disadvantage of requiring physical directory mount
> points which could be a bummer to have to cope with.

I think it would be a good thing to do.  The more it behaves like Unix
semantics, the better.

Ben