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Re: Odd mount and path problem
- From: "Larry V. Streepy, Jr." <streepy at healthlanguage dot com>
- To: "Robinow, David" <drobinow at dayton dot adroit dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 11:35:44 -0600
- Subject: Re: Odd mount and path problem
- References: <80575AFA5F0DD31197CE00805F650D767B226B@wilber.adroit.com>
Excellent description David, thanks.
I was giving too much "unix" smarts to the process and assuming my D:/
mount on / was properly implying that /bin also resides on D:.
This is an area that the user guide could definitely use work on.
Again, thanks to all who helped answer this problem and shed light on
what appears to be a misunderstood area.
Robinow, David wrote:
From: Larry V. Streepy, Jr. [mailto:streepy@healthlanguage.com]
Subject: Re: Odd mount and path problem
I got an explanation that had something to do with the current drive
affecting the way /cygdrive is interpreted. However, I wasn't using
/cygdrive in my path, so I don't understand the real reason that you
have to include the drive letter in mount table.
I think you misinterpreted the answer. /cygdrive has nothing to do with
this.
The mount point:
\cygwin\sbin on /sbin type system (binmode)
means that if cygwin sees a file spec /sbin/blah/what.txt
It looks in the mount table for /sbin/blah. Assuming that's not found it
looks for /sbin. That exists and so it looks for the file in
\cygwin\sbin\blah\what.txt
What disk drive would you expect to find that file in? Well, for as long as
I can remember, Microsoft has looked in what is known as the "current
drive". That means your mount point changes every time you change your
current directory to a different drive.
I don't think "mount" should allow you to do this. I consider it a bug.
mount should require a drive letter.
Note that the location of the "/" mount point is not relevant here. It
would only be looked at, in the above case, if there were no /sbin mount
point.
Jim George wrote:
From: "Larry V. Streepy, Jr." <streepy@healthlanguage.com>
Subject: Re: Odd mount and path problem
Sylvain Petreolle wrote:
d:\cygwin\home on /home type system (binmode)
\cygwin\sbin on /sbin type system (binmode)
\cygwin\bin on /bin type system (binmode)
basic response is :
you miss the DOS drive letter in your mount points
and the / moint point looks wrong (maybe d:\cygwin ?):
D: on / type system (binmode)
Excellent - that was the problem, although I really don't understand
why. Once d:/ is mounted on /, why do I need to qualify
all the other mount points?
Did you get an answer to this Larry?
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