Odd mount and path problem

[Gareth Pearce]

>Robinow, David wrote:
>
>>>From: Larry V. Streepy, Jr. [mailto:streepy@healthlanguage.com]
>>>Subject: Re: Odd mount and path problem
>>>
>>>Excellent description David, thanks.
>>>
>>>I was giving too much "unix" smarts to the process and
>>>assuming my D:/
>>>mount on / was properly implying that /bin also resides on D:.
>>>
>>  Well, actually unix works the same way.  I use several machines where
>>/usr/local is on a different drive than /usr.
>
>
>
>I know how Unix works, I've got 20 years of Unix history.  I fully
>understand how mount operations work under Unix.  The issue here is how
>cygwin interprets paths with regard to drive letters.  I made the
>mistake of assuming that the drive letter for / would be inherited by
>all things mounted on / unless otherwise specified.


Please ignore this email if i am showing complete ignorance...
I have tried to follow this thread, but i probably got lost somewhere...

>From what I saw ... I was under the impression that the problem was a slash 
problem.  Again probable ignorance, no access to cygwin to check my memory 
at the moment.  But i thought that \ implied mount would use dos style paths 
and / implied mount would use unix style paths, for working out where it 
mounts too.  And therefore the problem was that the mounts were specified as 
\ style paths rather the / style paths.

ofcourse I am probably just completely confused...

Gareth




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