Re: mount never fails ... sorta

2006-06-11 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Richard Foulk wrote: Richard Foulk wrote: Give mount(1) nonexistent hosts or directories and it will complain, but it still populates the mount table as if it succeeded. It also always returns zero, for success or failure. Cygwin's mount is a different bird than on Unix. It really is just a m

Re: mount never fails ... sorta

2006-06-11 Thread Richard Foulk
> Richard Foulk wrote: > > Give mount(1) nonexistent hosts or directories and it will complain, > > but it still populates the mount table as if it succeeded. > > > > It also always returns zero, for success or failure. > > Cygwin's mount is a different bird than on Unix. It really is just a map

Re: mount never fails ... sorta

2006-06-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 02:34:53AM -1000, Richard Foulk wrote: >Give mount(1) nonexistent hosts or directories and it will complain, >but it still populates the mount table as if it succeeded. > >It also always returns zero, for success or failure. Correct. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://c

Re: mount never fails ... sorta

2006-06-11 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Richard Foulk wrote: Give mount(1) nonexistent hosts or directories and it will complain, but it still populates the mount table as if it succeeded. It also always returns zero, for success or failure. Cygwin's mount is a different bird than on Unix. It really is just a mapping table of POSI