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Re: cd /d/somedir fails, but cd /d; cd somedir works
- To: "'cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com'" <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: cd /d/somedir fails, but cd /d; cd somedir works
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 15:48:20 -0400
- References: <F614BF868E0DD411A5A700508B957E0038D02F@MSGBOS679NTS.fmr.com>
- Reply-To: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 03:00:37PM -0400, Tolkin, Steve wrote:
>I think I have found and fixed the problem.
>It was indeed that C: was mounted in binmode. After I did this:
>
>505~> mount -f -t c: /
>506~> mount
>Device Directory Type Flags
>C:\bin /usr/bin user binmode
>C:\lib /usr/lib user binmode
>d: /d user textmode
>f: /f user textmode
>c: / user textmode
>e: /e user textmode
>
>my "Permission denied" problems, as mentionned below, went away!
>I think this should be added to the FAQ and/or other relevant documents.
If you got "Permission denied" errors just because something was mounted
as binmode, then that's a bug. I'm not going to add a bug report to the
FAQ. Sorry.
AFAIK, all of the "permission denied" errors were fixed in cygwin 1.1.2.
cgf
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