From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 84470 invoked by alias); 31 Jan 2020 10:18:03 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 84461 invoked by uid 89); 31 Jan 2020 10:18:02 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=tel, Tel X-HELO: mx4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de Received: from mx4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (HELO mx4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de) (129.69.192.4) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 31 Jan 2020 10:18:00 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5826831; Fri, 31 Jan 2020 11:17:57 +0100 (CET) Received: from mx4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mx4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id VjoEn31iOuXP; Fri, 31 Jan 2020 11:17:55 +0100 (CET) Received: from diaspora.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (diaspora.rus.uni-stuttgart.de [IPv6:2001:7c0:201c:202:13d1:ef0:c49a:66c2]) by mx4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Postfix) with ESMTP; Fri, 31 Jan 2020 11:17:55 +0100 (CET) Received: from diaspora.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by diaspora.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Postfix) with SMTP id 337EB21645; Fri, 31 Jan 2020 11:17:55 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2020 10:18:00 -0000 From: Ulli Horlacher To: Eric Blake Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: hardlinks on directories? Message-ID: <20200131101755.GA5074@tik.uni-stuttgart.de> Mail-Followup-To: Eric Blake , cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20200130181516.GA29782@tik.uni-stuttgart.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2020-01/txt/msg00327.txt.bz2 On Thu 2020-01-30 (12:26), Eric Blake wrote: > > Are this directory hard links? > > No, rather they are parallel mount points (the same directory mounted > under two different names). /: mount C:/cygwin64/bin on /usr/bin type ntfs (binary,auto) C:/cygwin64/lib on /usr/lib type ntfs (binary,auto) C:/cygwin64 on / type ntfs (binary,auto) C: on /cygdrive/c type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto) That's it! Thanks! But why does Cygwin mount the directories /usr/bin and /usr/lib extra? Why not a symbolic link? And which process does this mounting? -- Ullrich Horlacher Server und Virtualisierung Rechenzentrum TIK Universitaet Stuttgart E-Mail: horlacher@tik.uni-stuttgart.de Allmandring 30a Tel: ++49-711-68565868 70569 Stuttgart (Germany) WWW: http://www.tik.uni-stuttgart.de/ REF: -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple