interesting behavior
Chris Faylor
cgf@cygnus.com
Thu Mar 9 08:08:00 GMT 2000
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 07:11:54AM -0800, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>--- Eric Christopher <echristo@cygnus.com> wrote:
>> Okay. Here's a new one.
>>
>> I've got a directory structure / like this:
>>
>> bin contrib etc home <few other things>
>>
>> I decide to mount contrib to where it actually is:
>>
>> 'mount g:\cygwin\contrib /contrib'
>>
>
>Umm... You're executing the command from bash. The \ is used for character
>quoting so you end up with g:cygwincontrib as the source directory. Just check
>the registry entry. From bash you could use `mount g:/cygwin/contrib /contrib'
>instead.
Hey! Good catch, Earnie! I completely missed that.
>> (this didn't acutally do anything)
>>
>
>It won't actually change anything when you get it correct either since
>g:\cygwin is mounted as /. It might even cause Cygwin to be slower since it
>adds to the hashing levels.
Actually, it might be a little faster depending on the size of the mount
table since the table is not hashed. It is sorted in reverse length order
so '/' is always matched last.
cgf
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