Files in /usr/bin

Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com
Fri Feb 27 20:46:00 GMT 2009


On 02/27/2009, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
> As I understand it, </usr/bin> is mounted on </bin>; everything should be 
> in </cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin> and nothing in </cygdrive/c/cygwin/usr/bin>.

I think your notation for the last part of your statement is wrong.  Since
'/cygdrive/c' is Cygwin notation, what's in '/cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin' should
match what's in '/cygdrive/c/cygwin/usr/bin'.  In Windows, everything would
be in 'c:\cygwin\bin' and nothing in 'c:\cygwin\usr\bin'.

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