slow share = slow scripts?

mwoehlke mwoehlke@tibco.com
Thu May 25 20:06:00 GMT 2006


Igor Peshansky wrote:
> On Thu, 25 May 2006, mwoehlke wrote:
>> According to the man page, 'mount -f' does X. From *real experience* I
>> *know* that it, in fact, does Y. I think we have agreed that this is
>> MSFTEU = confusing. Let's not argue about it.
> 
> Again, CYNUX.  Whatever you learned about mount in Linux will not apply to
> Cygwin.  You've made the mistake of assuming that it does.  An
> understandable mistake, but still not MSFTEU.

What does "'-f' also means '-no-no-executable'" have to do with Linux? 
Anyway, *I* thought that "this flag that we tell you does X in fact 
/also/ does Y" was an appropriate use of the acronym. If it isn't, then 
I guess I don't know what is.

> FWIW, running "mount -rtfm" produces extremely helpful output. :-D

Heh... one character different from 'mount -wtf'? ;-)

-- 
Matthew
...Ruthlessly beating Windows with a hammer until it looks like POSIX.



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