Luke Kendall wrote: > Here's something that stunned me: I see different contents of a > directory I want to be "empty-ish" (c:/cygwin/home), depending on how I > refer to it. I think it's because sometimes, "c:/cygwin" == "/". > > $ cygpath -m / > C:/cygwin > > $ ls c:/cygwin/home > 00-THIS-DIRECTORY-SHOULD-BE-EMPTY.txt > > $ cd c:/cygwin/home
I think it's because when you 'cd' the path is normalized. After "cd c:/cygwin/home" the current working directory is now /home. If you do "ls /home" you should see the contents of the mount, if you do "ls c:/cygwin/home" you'll see the contents of that directory itself. In other words mounting something on "/home" only affects paths that start with "/home". If you want "c:/cygwin/home" to actually be "d:/home" then make it a symlink. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
