----- Original Message ----- From: "Soren Andersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 02:57 Subject: Re: CygwinPerl Q - interact with symlinked dir?
> On 20 Jan 2002 at 19:21, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > > > Another question: > > > > >So I did this: > > >------------------------------------------------------------ > > >$ ln -svdnf '/home/sorenboss/.cpan/' ~/.cpan > > >create symbolic link `/cdv/e/home/sorenboss/.cpan' to > > >`/home/sorenboss/.cpan/' > > >------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > Why didn't you mount this way: > > $ mount -s -b x:/cygwin/home/sorenboss/.cpan \ > > > e:/home/sorenboss/.cpan > > ? > > > > I use always mount for something like this. > > Thanks. Well, it didn't occur to me to do that, is why. I have seldom mounted subdirs to subdirs, > splicing something into the filesystem tree like that, and I think it is because I haven't understood > mount very well, and therefore been nervous about what would happen. This is an area of the Cygwin > documentation that could use some work, IMO. > > [ a little time passes..] > > Looking at it again, I am *seriously* confused about what you are suggesting. I thought -- and I am not > claiming (and have never claimed) to thoroughly understand `mount' -- but I thought that the last arg to > mount had to be a POSIX path?? You seem to be supplying two win32/DOS paths as args to `mount'. > Is this good to do? The second argument should be the POSIX path. So your mount command would be: mount -s -b x:/cygwin/home/sorenboss/.cpan /home/sorenboss/.cpan It might be useful to create an empty directory '/home/sorenboss/.cpan' before the mount. It seems to make umount and some directory searching work better. -- Mac :}) ** I normally forward private questions to the appropriate mail list. ** Give a hobbit a fish and he eats fish for a day. Give a hobbit a ring and he eats fish for an age. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
