On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 01:09:31PM -0700, Nicholas Wourms wrote: > >--- Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 06:08:33PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: >> >John Carlyle- Clarke wrote: >> >> Darn -- figured it out about 10 seconds after I hit send. It >> was of course a >> >mount. I unmounted, created an empty /usr/lib and >> >> then remounted, and now it shows in the folder listing. Sorry >> about that. >> > >> >WARNING! This is inadvisable! Imagine... some Cygwin binary >> tarballs installing >> >stuff into /lib, others into /usr/lib, depending on configuration >> and how the >> >package works. Ditto /bin and /usr/bin. >> >> Actually, I don't see any harm in it at all as long as the mounts >> are >> set up appropriately so that c:\cygwin\lib == /usr/lib . The >> existence >> of a c:\cygwin\usr\lib directory should really not cause any >> problems. > >If it helps, just think of cygwin mounts like bindmounts [mount -o >bind ...] in linux. FWICT, the behavior seems to be identical [other >then how you actually mount them].
Also, if you heat the paper over a light bulb, you may start to see messages appear. Oh wait. That's invisible *ink*. Nevermind. cgf -- 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/
