Re: umount doesn't umount

2002-05-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 02:18:22PM -0400, David E Euresti wrote: >But maybe the correct test for Win32ness is if it's a letter followed by a >colon. Or if the colon is the 2nd letter in the name. That way colons >can be used later. That wouldn't work too well with things like "com1:" or "null:"

RE: umount doesn't umount

2002-05-17 Thread David E Euresti
Indeed Cygwin thinks that because the name has a colon it's a win32 path. In mount_info::conv_to_win32_path /* An MS-DOS spec has either a : or a \. If this is found, short circuit most of the rest of this function. */ if (strpbrk (src_path, ":\\") != NULL || slash_unc_prefix_p (src_p

Re: umount doesn't umount

2002-05-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 01:11:40PM -0400, David E Euresti wrote: >Allright let's escape the colon > >$ mount c: /blah\:drivec >mount: warning - /blah:drivec does not exist. > >$ cd /blah\:drivec >bash: cd: /blah:drivec: No such file or directory > >$ cd /blah:drivec >bash: cd: /blah:drivec: No suc

Re: umount doesn't umount

2002-05-17 Thread David E Euresti
Allright let's escape the colon $ mount c: /blah\:drivec mount: warning - /blah:drivec does not exist. $ cd /blah\:drivec bash: cd: /blah:drivec: No such file or directory $ cd /blah:drivec bash: cd: /blah:drivec: No such file or directory $ umount /blah\:drivec umount: /blah:drivec: Invalid a

RE: umount doesn't umount

2002-05-16 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: Gilgamesh Nootebos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 3:25 PM > To: cygwin > Subject: Re: umount doesn't umount > > > Robert Collins wrote: > > > > ':'s on NTFS allow alternate st

Re: umount doesn't umount

2002-05-16 Thread Gilgamesh Nootebos
Robert Collins wrote: > > ':'s on NTFS allow alternate streams. Read up on that before > speculating, and please remember that a single test case (your local > test) only shows the results for that exact configuration. > I just refreshed my memory with http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default

Re: umount doesn't umount

2002-05-16 Thread Ryan T. Sammartino
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 01:12:04AM +0200, Gilgamesh Nootebos wrote: > David E Euresti wrote: > > > > >I think it doesn't like the colon. Any ideas? > > > > W2K PRO NL shows this: > > D:\temp>mkdir foo:bar > De mapnaam is ongeldig. > > Which is Dutch for: "The directory name is invalid" Whew.

RE: umount doesn't umount

2002-05-16 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: Gilgamesh Nootebos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 9:12 AM ... ':'s on NTFS allow alternate streams. Read up on that before speculating, and please remember that a single test case (your local test) only shows the results for that ex

Re: umount doesn't umount

2002-05-16 Thread Gilgamesh Nootebos
David E Euresti wrote: > > I think it doesn't like the colon. Any ideas? > W2K PRO NL shows this: D:\temp>mkdir foo:bar De mapnaam is ongeldig. D:\temp> Which is Dutch for: "The directory name is invalid" IIRC a ':' is only valid when adressing a Drive and cannot be used in Directory nam

Re: umount doesn't umount

2002-05-16 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 06:49 PM 5/16/2002, David E Euresti wrote: >Anybody know why this happens? > >$ mount c: /blah:c >mount: warning - /blah:c does not exist. > >$cd /blah:c > >$ cd /blah:c >bash: cd: /blah:c: No such file or directory > >$mount >C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode) >C:\cygwin\lib on /u