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Re: Path confusion
- From: Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 23:34:55 -0800
- Subject: Re: Path confusion
- Organization: My own little world...
- References: <20050324071719.DAFA8834E0@pessard.research.canon.com.au>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Luke Kendall wrote:
> Here's something that stunned me: I see different contents of a
> directory I want to be "empty-ish" (c:/cygwin/home), depending on how I
> refer to it. I think it's because sometimes, "c:/cygwin" == "/".
>
> $ cygpath -m /
> C:/cygwin
>
> $ ls c:/cygwin/home
> 00-THIS-DIRECTORY-SHOULD-BE-EMPTY.txt
>
> $ cd c:/cygwin/home
I think it's because when you 'cd' the path is normalized. After "cd
c:/cygwin/home" the current working directory is now /home. If you do
"ls /home" you should see the contents of the mount, if you do "ls
c:/cygwin/home" you'll see the contents of that directory itself. In
other words mounting something on "/home" only affects paths that start
with "/home". If you want "c:/cygwin/home" to actually be "d:/home"
then make it a symlink.
Brian
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