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Re: Mount Problem: "No such file or directory"
- To: Kevin Bridges <kevinast at mvp dot net>, cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Mount Problem: "No such file or directory"
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 13:41:35 -0800 (PST)
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com
Yup!! Relative paths are broken with the distribution. Fixed in the snapshots.
For a snapshot go to the http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/snapshots/ page.
Be sure to read the caveats.
Earnie.
--- Kevin Bridges <kevinast@mvp.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just loaded cygwin and I am having trouble getting paths to resolve
> to relative directories that are mount points.
>
> I am running cygwin 20.1 on NT.
>
> Here is a simple example:
>
> P90:/>
> P90:/> mount
> Device Directory Type Flags
> C: / native text!=binary
>
>
> P90:/>
> P90:/> mount 'c:\tempCygWinTest' /tempWow
> Warning: /tempWow does not exist!
>
> Note 1: I have tried the /tempWow being an empty directory
> (eliminating the warning above) and the results are the same.
>
> P90:/>
> P90:/> mount
> Device Directory Type Flags
> c:\tempCygWinTest /tempWow native text!=binary
> C: / native text!=binary
>
> P90:/>
> P90:/> # ABSOLUTE PATHS WORK!
> P90:/> cat /tempWow/Test1.txt
> This is a test.
> I hope it works.
>
> P90:/>
> P90:/> # RELATIVE PATHS DO NOT WORK :-(
> P90:/> cat tempWow/Test1.txt
> cat: tempWow/Test1.txt: No such file or directory
>
> Note 2: I have a /tmp directory
> Note 3: I have a /bin with a copy of sh.exe
>
> Any help and/or insight would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Kevin
>
> =================================
> Kevin Bridges
> email: kevinast@mvp.net
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Earnie Boyd <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
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