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Re: What's going on here with directory contents?


On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 02:23:17PM -0700, Shankar Unni wrote:
>On 10/24/2002 10:18 AM, CBFalconer wrote:
>
>>That seems to tell me how to get the effect, but nothing about
>>what is going on.  I would expect to see some sort of hidden file
>>in ...\usr\bin to cause the effect, but there is nothing there.
>
>Oh, you want to know how mount works..
>
>Well, the "open" cygwin call (and any others that need name resolution) 
>go through a special layer in cygwin that does mount point resolution: 
>when the prefix of the path matches a mount point, it is replaced with 
>the mount expansion, and the name interpretation is resumed.

Wow.  Very nice summation.

cgf

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