cygwin on Mac: files in Virtual PC "shared folder"

[Ashley Ward]

On 14 Apr 2005, at 1:17 pm, Dave Korn wrote:
>> From: Ashley Ward
>> Sent: 14 April 2005 13:11
>
>> Perhaps I'm not being clear enough.  I'm suggesting changing example
>> 3.10 in the manual from
>>    mount \\pollux\home\joe\data /data
>> to
>>    mount '\\pollux\home\joe\data' /data
>
>   Pay closer attention to the prompt in that example!

OK -- to save others looking it up, the example currently reads as 
follows:

> c:\cygwin\> ls /data
> ls: /data: No such file or directory
> c:\cygwin\> mount \\pollux\home\joe\data /data
> mount: warning - /data does not exist!
> c:\cygwin\> mount
> \\pollux\home\joe\data on /data type sytem (binmode)
> c:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode)
> c:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode)
> c:\cygwin on / type system (binmode)
> c: on /c type user (binmode,noumount)
> d: on /d type user (binmode,noumount)
>
> Note that mount was invoked from the Windows command shell in the 
> previous example. In many Unix shells, including bash, it is legal and 
> convenient to use the forward "/" in Win32 pathnames since the "\" is 
> the shell's escape character.

Why use the Windows command shell for that example?  Cygwin installs 
bash, a short cut to it etc.  I install cygwin because I don't want to 
use the Windows command shell.  However, I can see that if the registry 
mount information is broken, it might not be possible to start bash and 
run 'mount' there.  Otherwise, I'd prefer to use bash.

Also, if that example is to use the Windows command shell, the Windows 
PATH variable must contain the directory with the mount command, which 
it doesn't seem to for me by default.  The example doesn't therefore 
work as it stands.

I'd suggest changing the manual to read as below.

   c:\> c:\cygwin\bin\ls /data
   ls: /data: No such file or directory
   c:\> c:\cygwin\bin\mount \\pollux\home\joe\data /data
   mount: warning - /data does not exist!
   c:\> c:\cygwin\bin\mount
   \\pollux\home\joe\data on /data type sytem (binmode)
   c:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode)
   c:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode)
   c:\cygwin on / type system (binmode)
   c: on /c type user (binmode,noumount)
   d: on /d type user (binmode,noumount)

   Note that 'mount' was invoked from the Windows command shell in the 
above example.
   It might be necessary to use the Windows command shell if bash is not 
functional
   due to incorrect mount points.

   In many Unix shells, including bash, "\" is the shell's escape 
character.  Windows
   path and share names therefore cannot be typed as above: the "\" 
character must be
   enclosed in quotes, or the alternative "/" can be used.  For example:

   $ mount '\\pollux\home\joe\data' /data

   or

   $ mount //pollux/home/joe/data /data

Best wishes,

Ashley.


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