Win2000 mount points and Cygwin

Bob McGowan rmcgowan@veritas.com
Sat Jul 1 14:29:00 GMT 2000


Scratch that.  I'm not sure what I was looking at a minute ago, but
whatever it was ain't happening now.  Everything is as would be
expected.

My apologies for the misleading post.

Bob McGowan wrote:
> 
> Windows 2000 has introduced the idea of a "mount point" to handle large
> numbers of disk partitions (beyond the number handled by the alphabet).
> >From a command prompt, the DIR command shows these items as <JUNCTION>
> while Explorer shows a disk icon rather than a folder.
> 
> Problem is that Cygwin (I'm using the CD v. 1.0, no updates) does not
> recognize this new thing.  I have not seen any discussion of this
> Windows feature in the list yet.  Is this a known issue, maybe even
> fixed in a recent snapshot?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
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> Bob McGowan
> Staff Software Quality Engineer
> VERITAS Software
> rmcgowan@veritas.com
> 
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