Re: Misleading warning from mount?

[luke dot kendall at cisra dot canon dot com dot au]

On  7 Oct, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>  You did everything but the one thing that would prove that the warning 
>  message is correct: 
>   
>      bash-2.05b$ mount 
>      c: on /cygdrive/c type user (textmode,noumount) 
>      l: on /cygdrive/l type user (textmode,noumount) 
>      m: on /cygdrive/m type user (textmode,noumount) 
>      u: on /cygdrive/u type user (textmode,noumount) 
>      x: on /cygdrive/x type user (textmode,noumount) 
>      bash-2.05b$ ls /tmp 
>      ls: /tmp: No such file or directory 
>   
>  Use the -f option if this message bothers you. 
>   
>  cgf 

Okay, I'll do that, thanks.  I don't understand what you mean about
doing everything but the one thing that would prove that the warning 
message is correct.  Do you mean mount itself?  If I actually try that,
it seems to confirm that the message is *incorrect*:

    bash-2.05b$ mount
    c:\temp\mnt\tmp on /tmp type system (binmode)
    c: on /cygdrive/c type user (textmode,noumount)
    l: on /cygdrive/l type user (textmode,noumount)
    m: on /cygdrive/m type user (textmode,noumount)
    u: on /cygdrive/u type user (textmode,noumount)
    x: on /cygdrive/x type user (textmode,noumount)
    bash-2.05b$ umount /tmp
    bash-2.05b$ mount
    c: on /cygdrive/c type user (textmode,noumount)
    l: on /cygdrive/l type user (textmode,noumount)
    m: on /cygdrive/m type user (textmode,noumount)
    u: on /cygdrive/u type user (textmode,noumount)
    x: on /cygdrive/x type user (textmode,noumount)
    bash-2.05b$ mount c:/temp/mnt/tmp /tmp
    mount: warning - /tmp does not exist.
    bash-2.05b$ mount
    c:\temp\mnt\tmp on /tmp type system (binmode)
    c: on /cygdrive/c type user (textmode,noumount)
    l: on /cygdrive/l type user (textmode,noumount)
    m: on /cygdrive/m type user (textmode,noumount)
    u: on /cygdrive/u type user (textmode,noumount)
    x: on /cygdrive/x type user (textmode,noumount)
    bash-2.05b$ ls /tmp
    a  b
    bash-2.05b$ echo c > /tmp/c
    bash-2.05b$ cat /tmp/c
    c
    bash-2.05b$ ls c:/temp/mnt/tmp
    a  b  c

Maybe I still misunderstand.  In what sense does /tmp not exist?

luke


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