From: "Brian Mathis" <brian.mathis@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Thought/Suggestion/Is it Possible for the new Cygwin 1.7 /etc/fstab
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:27:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <183c528b0806101712h4a19c2beh6988c45d17551863@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <VA.00001823.00d8b0d6@thesoftwaresource.com>
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Brian Keener
<bkeenerReMoVeAnTiSpAm@thesoftwaresource.com> wrote:
> Dave Korn wrote:
>> > But as I say I am probably overthinking this for the Cygwin on Windows
>> > environment - does it really care if I change cd's without a unmount and
>> > then mount?
>>
>> 'mount' and 'unmount' are utterly different kinds of beast on Cygwin as
>> they are on the Linux platform; they don't do the same job, and in any case
>> that job doesn't even need doing.
>
> Thanks Dave and Corinna for the response and clarification - just as I
> thought - I was overthinking it.
>
> bk
Keep in mind that cygwin is not Linux/Unix, it's CYGWIN. It makes
life on Windows much easier by being "unix-LIKE", but it's not unix.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-11 0:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-03 17:12 Brian Keener
2008-06-10 10:32 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-06-10 17:04 ` Brian Keener
2008-06-10 17:49 ` Dave Korn
2008-06-10 19:14 ` Brian Keener
2008-06-11 0:27 ` Brian Mathis [this message]
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