Running Linux Application on Windows

[Christopher Faylor]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 04:24:51AM -0700, Warren Young wrote:
> Emil Tan wrote:
>> Is the documentation kinda wrong? 
>
> Yes, but that's something you'll have to take up with the people who 
> maintain that file, presumably on the Samhain mailing list.  Whoever wrote 
> it doesn't realize that /usr, /home, etc aren't created in c:\, they're 
> mount(1) aliases for directories that actually live in c:\cygwin, by 
> default.

Right.  Just to be clear if that is what the documentation tells you to
do it is frighteningly wrong.

cgf

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