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Re: CygwinPerl Q - interact with symlinked dir?
- From: "Soren Andersen" <soren_andersen at speedymail dot org>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 05:57:13 -0500
- Subject: Re: CygwinPerl Q - interact with symlinked dir?
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- Reply-to: soren_andersen at speedymail dot org
On 20 Jan 2002 at 19:21, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> Another question:
>
> >So I did this:
> >------------------------------------------------------------
> >$ ln -svdnf '/home/sorenboss/.cpan/' ~/.cpan
> >create symbolic link `/cdv/e/home/sorenboss/.cpan' to
> >`/home/sorenboss/.cpan/'
> >------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Why didn't you mount this way:
> $ mount -s -b x:/cygwin/home/sorenboss/.cpan \
> > e:/home/sorenboss/.cpan
> ?
>
> I use always mount for something like this.
Thanks. Well, it didn't occur to me to do that, is why. I have seldom mounted subdirs to subdirs,
splicing something into the filesystem tree like that, and I think it is because I haven't understood
mount very well, and therefore been nervous about what would happen. This is an area of the Cygwin
documentation that could use some work, IMO.
[ a little time passes..]
Looking at it again, I am *seriously* confused about what you are suggesting. I thought -- and I am not
claiming (and have never claimed) to thoroughly understand `mount' -- but I thought that the last arg to
mount had to be a POSIX path?? You seem to be supplying two win32/DOS paths as args to `mount'.
Is this good to do?
Thanks Gerrit!
Soren Andersen
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