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RE: What's going on here with directory contents?


Cygwin creates a mount point from /bin -> /usr/bin.

Run the 'mount' command (no options needed) to see
your Cygwin mount points.  DOS/Windows has no knowledge
of these.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: CBFalconer [mailto:cbfalconer@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 11:41 AM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: What's going on here with directory contents?
> 
> 
> I get the following from the bash shell:
> 
> > chuck@AEYRIEONE ~
> > $ which whatis
> > /usr/bin/whatis
> > 
> > chuck@AEYRIEONE ~
> > $ ls -lap /usr/bin/wha*
> > -rwxr-xr-x    1 chuck    unknown      1743 Apr 20  2000 
> /usr/bin/whatis
> > 
> > chuck@AEYRIEONE ~
> > $ ls -lap /bin/wha*
> > -rwxr-xr-x    1 chuck    unknown      1743 Apr 20  2000 /bin/whatis
> 
> however I find the following from the DOS/4dos shell:
> 
> > [1] c:\cygwin>dir /a: usr\bin\
> > 
> >  Volume in drive C is WD30-PRI41     Serial number is 3CE4:239B
> >  Directory of  C:\cygwin\usr\bin\*
> > 
> > 10-11-02   4:09         <DIR>    .
> > 10-11-02   4:09         <DIR>    ..
> >               0 bytes in 0 files and 2 dirs
> > 
> > [1] c:\cygwin>dir /a: bin\wha*
> > 
> >  Volume in drive C is WD30-PRI41     Serial number is 3CE4:239B
> >  Directory of  C:\cygwin\bin\wha*
> > 
> >  4-20-00  20:51           1,743  whatis
> >           1,743 bytes in 1 file and 0 dirs    4,096 bytes allocated
> 
> In other words the apparent directories existing under cygwin are
> actually empty!  For my own peace of mind I would like to know
> what machinations are occurring :-)
> 
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