From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: mount never fails ... sorta
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 18:04:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <448C4B51.5020204@cygwin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200606111234.k5BCYrpq015157@sd.skydive1.com>
Richard Foulk wrote:
> Give mount(1) nonexistent hosts or directories and it will complain,
> but it still populates the mount table as if it succeeded.
>
> It also always returns zero, for success or failure.
Cygwin's mount is a different bird than on Unix. It really is just a mapping
table of POSIX names to DOS or UNC-style paths. It is not required that the
POSIX path exist for things to work. But since most people coming from a UNIX
background expect that it does and it certainly helps things like shell
path completion if the paths do already exist, you get a warning to let you
know about this difference.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-11 16:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-11 13:57 Richard Foulk
2006-06-11 18:04 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin) [this message]
2006-06-11 19:31 ` Christopher Faylor
2006-06-11 23:22 Richard Foulk
2006-06-12 0:41 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
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