Cygwin portable bash
Larry Hall (Cygwin)
reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com
Tue Sep 29 13:07:00 GMT 2009
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 However, I also did not realize I was using an outdated version of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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A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?
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