Odd mount and path problem

[Larry V. Streepy, Jr.]

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:.

This is an area that the user guide could definitely use work on.

Again, thanks to all who helped answer this problem and shed light on 
what appears to be a misunderstood area.


Robinow, David wrote:

> 
>>From: Larry V. Streepy, Jr. [mailto:streepy@healthlanguage.com]
>>Subject: Re: Odd mount and path problem
>>
>>I got an explanation that had something to do with the current drive 
>>affecting the way /cygdrive is interpreted.  However, I wasn't using 
>>/cygdrive in my path, so I don't understand the real reason that you 
>>have to include the drive letter in mount table.
>>
>  I think you misinterpreted the answer. /cygdrive has nothing to do with
> this.
> 
>   The mount point:
>     \cygwin\sbin on /sbin type system (binmode)
>   means that if cygwin sees a file spec /sbin/blah/what.txt
>   It looks in the mount table for /sbin/blah. Assuming that's not found it
> looks for /sbin. That exists and so it looks for the file in
> \cygwin\sbin\blah\what.txt
>  What disk drive would you expect to find that file in? Well, for as long as
> I can remember, Microsoft has looked in what is known as the "current
> drive".  That means your mount point changes every time you change your
> current directory to a different drive.
>  I don't think "mount" should allow you to do this. I consider it a bug.
> mount should require a drive letter.
>  Note that the location of the "/" mount point is not relevant here.  It
> would only be looked at, in the above case, if there were no /sbin mount
> point.
> 
>>Jim George wrote:
>>
>>>From: "Larry V. Streepy, Jr." <streepy@healthlanguage.com>
>>>Subject: Re: Odd mount and path problem
>>>
>>>>Sylvain Petreolle wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>d:\cygwin\home on /home type system (binmode)
>>>>>>\cygwin\sbin on /sbin type system (binmode)
>>>>>>\cygwin\bin on /bin type system (binmode)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>basic response is :
>>>>>you miss the DOS drive letter in your mount points
>>>>>and the / moint point looks wrong (maybe d:\cygwin ?):
>>>>>D: on / type system (binmode)
>>>>>
>>>>Excellent - that was the problem, although I really don't understand 
>>>>why.  Once d:/ is mounted on /, why do I need to qualify 
>>>>all the other mount points?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>Did you get an answer to this Larry?
>>>
> 


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