On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 02:23:17PM -0700, Shankar Unni wrote: >On 10/24/2002 10:18 AM, CBFalconer wrote: > >>That seems to tell me how to get the effect, but nothing about >>what is going on. I would expect to see some sort of hidden file >>in ...\usr\bin to cause the effect, but there is nothing there. > >Oh, you want to know how mount works.. > >Well, the "open" cygwin call (and any others that need name resolution) >go through a special layer in cygwin that does mount point resolution: >when the prefix of the path matches a mount point, it is replaced with >the mount expansion, and the name interpretation is resumed.
Wow. Very nice summation. 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/
