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RE: Odd mount and path problem
- From: "Robinow, David" <drobinow at dayton dot adroit dot com>
- To: 'Sylvain Petreolle' <spetreolle at yahoo dot fr>, "Larry V. Streepy, Jr." <streepy at healthlanguage dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 16:32:11 -0400
- Subject: RE: Odd mount and path problem
> From: Sylvain Petreolle [mailto:spetreolle@yahoo.fr]
> Subject: Re: Odd mount and path problem
> > Also, mounting C:/ on /c was an example from the user guide, so I
> assumed it was kosher.
It is.
> Seems that the user guide is outdated for this one. Could you
> say where
> it lives in the guide in order to update it ?
> > It seems to work ok for me, am I getting lucky or can I reliably use
> > a
> > mount point of C:/ on /c?
You can (and should) reliably use it.
> Will function for some, but recent programs normally look for
> /cygdrive/x and could fail.
Sorry, but this is nonsense.
If C:/ is mounted as /c then both /c and /cygdrive/c will both "work", but
may have different text/binary characteristics.
In any case mounting /c has no affect on what /cygdrive/c does.
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