weird mount/ls behaviour

[Earnie Boyd]

--- Matt <matt@use.net> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 02:36:27PM -0700, Matt wrote:
> > >mount never seems to return an error if it can't qualify the win32
> > >path supplied.
> >
> > Correct.  It never has and it is not intended to do so, AFAIK.
> 
> huh, ok. Why does 'ls' not show the bad mount point at all and 'ls -l' does?
> This was the weird behaviour part of my report.
> 

It's an invalid mount point, results are unpredicatable and undefined.  The
patch will eliminate that type of invalid mount point by not allowing it to
occur.

Cheers,

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