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Robinow, David wrote:From: Larry V. Streepy, Jr. [mailto:streepy@healthlanguage.com] Subject: Re: Odd mount and path problem 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:.Well, actually unix works the same way. I use several machines where /usr/local is on a different drive than /usr.I know how Unix works, I've got 20 years of Unix history. I fully understand how mount operations work under Unix. The issue here is how cygwin interprets paths with regard to drive letters. I made the mistake of assuming that the drive letter for / would be inherited by all things mounted on / unless otherwise specified.
Please ignore this email if i am showing complete ignorance... I have tried to follow this thread, but i probably got lost somewhere...
From what I saw ... I was under the impression that the problem was a slashproblem. Again probable ignorance, no access to cygwin to check my memory at the moment. But i thought that \ implied mount would use dos style paths and / implied mount would use unix style paths, for working out where it mounts too. And therefore the problem was that the mounts were specified as \ style paths rather the / style paths.
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