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Re: Cygwin portable bash
- From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:04:59 -0400
- Subject: Re: Cygwin portable bash
- References: <4AC03276.8010308@cygwin.com> <4AC19249.2010404@djandyj.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On 09/29/2009 12:51 AM, Andy Holt wrote:
ok, all apologies. I am familiar with mount, but if there is something
extra special about how it works w/in cygwin I will check the Users
Guide. I appreciate the direction, sorry I misunderstood (thought he was
just telling me to 'man mount' and I felt that would be a waste of time
since I am already familiar with the general of mount and the different
basic linux mount points like bin and / and swap etc).
The semantics of Cygwin's mount are different than that of traditional
Unix/Linux.
Principally, Cygwin's mount is responsible for mapping DOS paths into POSIX
paths. It does not mount file-systems at the driver level like Unix/Linux.
However, I also did not realize I was using an outdated version of
cygwin!! Perhaps I should work off of 1.7 instead of 1.5? This sounds
like it would probably make things a bit easier. is 1.7 stable enough?
1.7 is officially Beta (http://cygwin.com/#beta-test) but is very close to
release.
Which you choose to use is up to you.
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