Re: Is there a way to make an existing UNC symbolic link behave like a mount point?

2015-04-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 19 14:16, Skarr Socrates wrote: > Hi all, > I am experiencing problems with a UNC symbolic link and how it is > interpreted by cygwin. The issue is as below: > [...] > However, > bob@machinea /cygdrive/c/Users/bob $ touch file.txt > bob@machinea /cygdrive/c/Users/bob/bsdhome $ cd bsdhome > b

Re: Is there a way to make an existing UNC symbolic link behave like a mount point?

2015-04-19 Thread Jack
On 2015.04.19 08:16, Skarr Socrates wrote: Hi all, I am experiencing problems with a UNC symbolic link and how it is interpreted by cygwin. The issue is as below: * MachineA is a freebsd server (10.1-RELEASE-p9) with a simple samba3.6 [homes] share. * MachineB is a Windows 7 Ultimate, the user "

Is there a way to make an existing UNC symbolic link behave like a mount point?

2015-04-19 Thread Skarr Socrates
Hi all, I am experiencing problems with a UNC symbolic link and how it is interpreted by cygwin. The issue is as below: * MachineA is a freebsd server (10.1-RELEASE-p9) with a simple samba3.6 [homes] share. * MachineB is a Windows 7 Ultimate, the user "bob" bsd home is not mapped to a network driv

Re: Bug with paths containing double slashes after double dot after a mount point

2011-06-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 18 13:43, Vadim Zeitlin wrote: > Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > > Other than that, I fixed that in CVS. It's a Win32 path coversion problem > > which only occurs if there are multiple backslashes trailing a ".." path > > component. > > Thanks a lot for fixing this! Just out of id

Re: Bug with paths containing double slashes after double dot after a mount point

2011-06-18 Thread Vadim Zeitlin
Charles Wilson cwilson.fastmail.fm> writes: > On 6/18/2011 7:33 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > cygpath -pm `some-mingw-g++ -print-search-dirs` > > As the OP stated, this is happening deep inside libtool, so it's not > like he can easily insert a call to 'cygpath' in there. Now, libtool > DOES

Re: Bug with paths containing double slashes after double dot after a mount point

2011-06-18 Thread Charles Wilson
On 6/18/2011 7:33 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > cygpath -pm `some-mingw-g++ -print-search-dirs` As the OP stated, this is happening deep inside libtool, so it's not like he can easily insert a call to 'cygpath' in there. Now, libtool DOES have some limited support for environments where path form

Re: Bug with paths containing double slashes after double dot after a mount point

2011-06-18 Thread Vadim Zeitlin
Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > On Jun 18 11:18, Vadim Zeitlin wrote: > > Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > > > > > > Don't use Windows paths, use POSIX paths: > > > > As I wrote in my first message[*], I unfortunately can't avoid using > > Windows paths because the original path

Re: Bug with paths containing double slashes after double dot after a mount point

2011-06-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 18 11:18, Vadim Zeitlin wrote: > Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > > > On Jun 17 16:29, Fahlgren, Eric wrote: > > > Vadim Zeitlin wrote: > > > > Could someone else please test this under Windows 7 to confirm the bug? > > > > > > Windows 7 Pro 64-bit > > > > > > $ ls C:/cygwin/lib/X

Re: Bug with paths containing double slashes after double dot after a mount point

2011-06-18 Thread Vadim Zeitlin
Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > On Jun 17 16:29, Fahlgren, Eric wrote: > > Vadim Zeitlin wrote: > > > Could someone else please test this under Windows 7 to confirm the bug? > > > > Windows 7 Pro 64-bit > > > > $ ls C:/cygwin/lib/X11/../libc.a > > C:/cygwin/lib/X11/../libc.a > > $ ls C:

Re: Bug with paths containing double slashes after double dot after a mount point

2011-06-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 17 16:29, Fahlgren, Eric wrote: > Vadim Zeitlin wrote: > > Could someone else please test this under Windows 7 to confirm the bug? > > Windows 7 Pro 64-bit > > $ ls C:/cygwin/lib/X11/../libc.a > C:/cygwin/lib/X11/../libc.a > $ ls C:/cygwin/lib/X11/..//libc.a > ls: cannot access C:/cygwin/

RE: Bug with paths containing double slashes after double dot after a mount point

2011-06-17 Thread Fahlgren, Eric
Vadim Zeitlin wrote: > Could someone else please test this under Windows 7 to confirm the bug? Windows 7 Pro 64-bit $ ls C:/cygwin/lib/X11/../libc.a C:/cygwin/lib/X11/../libc.a $ ls C:/cygwin/lib/X11/..//libc.a ls: cannot access C:/cygwin/lib/X11/..//libc.a: No such file or directory $ uname -a

Re: Bug with paths containing double slashes after double dot after a mount point

2011-06-17 Thread Vadim Zeitlin
Greg Chicares sbcglobal.net> writes: > On 2011-06-17 21:23Z, Vadim Zeitlin wrote: > > > > I see the following differences: > > > > - You have 1.7.9 while I have 1.7.8 and 1.7.7. > > - You have XP while I have 64 bit Windows 7. ... > Another data point--no such problem with XP-SP3 and Cygwin-1.

Re: Bug with paths containing double slashes after double dot after a mount point

2011-06-17 Thread Greg Chicares
On 2011-06-17 21:23Z, Vadim Zeitlin wrote: > Illia Bobyr ronin-capital.com> writes: > >> >> On 6/17/2011 1:59 PM, Vadim Zeitlin wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > I think I've discovered a bug with handling specific forms of "mixed" >> > form >> > paths in Cygwin 1.7. Here is the briefest possibl

Re: Bug with paths containing double slashes after double dot after a mount point

2011-06-17 Thread Vadim Zeitlin
Illia Bobyr ronin-capital.com> writes: > > On 6/17/2011 1:59 PM, Vadim Zeitlin wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I think I've discovered a bug with handling specific forms of "mixed" form > > paths in Cygwin 1.7. Here is the briefest possible demonstration: > > > > $ ls C:/cygwin/lib/X11/../libc

Bug with paths containing double slashes after double dot after a mount point

2011-06-17 Thread Vadim Zeitlin
t least it also happens in a freshly created VM with a very minimal Cygwin 1.7 installation too) nor to this mount point (I originally noticed it with one of my own manually created ones). Neither is it specific to the concrete file or directory names. The problem does *not* arise with /cygdrive/c

Re: Incorrect permissions on mount point when user does not have permission to access mounted directory

2009-12-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
ivileges. If I run Cygwin without elevated privileges and type ls -l > /backup, Cygwin shows the following: > > $ ls -l /backup > -rw-r--r-- 1 Chris None 0 2006-12-01 00:00 /backup > > i.e. Cygwin incorrectly reports the mount point is a regular file and not > a directory.

Incorrect permissions on mount point when user does not have permission to access mounted directory

2009-12-23 Thread Chris January
ls -l /backup, Cygwin shows the following: $ ls -l /backup -rw-r--r-- 1 Chris None 0 2006-12-01 00:00 /backup i.e. Cygwin incorrectly reports the mount point is a regular file and not a directory. $ mount C:/cygwin/bin on /usr/bin type ntfs (binary,auto) C:/cygwin/lib on /usr/lib type

Re: Cygwin 1.7: Problem with Windows 2008 mount point folders

2009-08-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 24 11:15, Dieter Meyer wrote: > Hi, > > using Cygwin on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 I can't create directories > within (or below) mount point folders. Obviously Cygwin fails to stat > mount point folders in general. > > For example I have a partition mounted

Cygwin 1.7: Problem with Windows 2008 mount point folders

2009-08-24 Thread Dieter Meyer
Hi, using Cygwin on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 I can't create directories within (or below) mount point folders. Obviously Cygwin fails to stat mount point folders in general. For example I have a partition mounted at C:\Data: DISKPART> list volume Volume ### Ltr LabelFs

Problem restoring mount point in bash

2008-10-20 Thread bjoe
Hi All, Background: 1. Running Cygwin (on USB Flash) on machine where there is Cygwin installed in local machine 2. I already making script which back up Cygwin mount (on local machine), put this back-up (remount.bat) in bin directory of Cygwin (on USB) and making new mount point for Cygwin

Re: devices' name and mount point

2007-06-19 Thread Marco Atzeri
--- Alex Kwan ha scritto: > Hi! > > How do I know all the storage devices' name and > their mount point on my > windows box? > because I wanted to dd a image file on a USB SD > card. thanks! http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2007-05/msg00551.html next time I sugg

devices' name and mount point

2007-06-19 Thread Alex Kwan
Hi! How do I know all the storage devices' name and their mount point on my windows box? because I wanted to dd a image file on a USB SD card. thanks! Alex -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Document

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] The SYSTEM user cannot access the mount point /usr/lib

2007-02-27 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
linux1974 wrote: *** * Warning: User mode mounts detected. This will likely cause * * the service to fail to start. You must have system mode mounts * * in order to run services. Re-run setup and choose 'All Users' * * or co

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] The SYSTEM user cannot access the mount point /usr/lib

2007-02-27 Thread linux1974
Corinna Vinschen-2 wrote: > > On Feb 27 02:03, linux1974 wrote: >> >> I get the error message above when trying to run cron-config. >> >> If i run mount is see the mount point to be there: >> >> $ mount >> C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type user

Re: The SYSTEM user cannot access the mount point /usr/lib

2007-02-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 27 02:03, linux1974 wrote: > > I get the error message above when trying to run cron-config. > > If i run mount is see the mount point to be there: > > $ mount > C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type user (binmode) > C:\cygwin\lib on /us

Re: The SYSTEM user cannot access the mount point /usr/lib

2007-02-27 Thread Reini Urban
Yes, the idea I got from this message is that the SYSTEM user cannot access the mount point /usr/lib. That means you need to give this user read-access to /usr/lib /usr/lib usually has read and execute access for everybody. 2007/2/27, linux1974 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I get the error m

The SYSTEM user cannot access the mount point /usr/lib

2007-02-27 Thread linux1974
I get the error message above when trying to run cron-config. If i run mount is see the mount point to be there: $ mount C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type user (binmode) C:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type user (binmode) C:\cygwin on / type user (binmode) c: on /cygdrive/c type user (binmode,noumount

RE: Error with managed mount point.

2004-12-16 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Mark Paulus > Sent: 16 December 2004 14:32 > >No, they need to be removed. Windows behavior is to ignore > one or more > >'.'s at the end of a file so we're stuck with that in normal > Cygwin-working > >mode. I actually haven't del

Re: Error with managed mount point.

2004-12-16 Thread Mark Paulus
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 19:21:51 -0500, Larry Hall wrote: >At 03:48 PM 12/15/2004, you wrote: >>Running strace pointed me to the proper place to look >>for the error. >> >>However, the proper fix is maybe more of a philosophy >>issue. >> >No, they need to be removed. Windows behavior is to ignore

Re: Error with managed mount point.

2004-12-15 Thread Larry Hall
At 03:48 PM 12/15/2004, you wrote: >Running strace pointed me to the proper place to look >for the error. > >However, the proper fix is maybe more of a philosophy >issue. > >I found some code in path.cc that removes trailing dots and >spaces from a file name in path_conv::check(). The question i

Re: Error with managed mount point.

2004-12-15 Thread Mark Paulus
Running strace pointed me to the proper place to look for the error. However, the proper fix is maybe more of a philosophy issue. I found some code in path.cc that removes trailing dots and spaces from a file name in path_conv::check(). The question is, should these trailing spaces/dots actual

Re: Error with managed mount point.

2004-12-15 Thread Larry Hall
At 02:06 PM 12/15/2004, you wrote: >Hi, > >If someone can point me to the proper place, I would >be willing to further analyze this, but this is the issue: > >Files/Directories that end in a '.'(dot) are not retaining >the dot. For example: > >I am attempting to untar a tarball that contains this

Error with managed mount point.

2004-12-15 Thread Mark Paulus
Hi, If someone can point me to the proper place, I would be willing to further analyze this, but this is the issue: Files/Directories that end in a '.'(dot) are not retaining the dot. For example: I am attempting to untar a tarball that contains this (done on a linux box) drwxr-xr-x 22 mgpaulu

Re: Managed mount point question(s)?

2004-12-15 Thread Mark Paulus
Thank you for that information. That's the clue I needed. On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 13:37:50 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 11:19:42AM -0700, Mark Paulus wrote: >>In general, does it make sense to mount c:/cygwin as >>/ in managed mode? >No. >>Is there some reason this wo

Re: Managed mount point question(s)?

2004-12-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 11:19:42AM -0700, Mark Paulus wrote: >In general, does it make sense to mount c:/cygwin as >/ in managed mode? No. >Is there some reason this would not be a good idea? Since you are supposed to first create an empty directory, then mount it as managed mount, and then popu

Managed mount point question(s)?

2004-12-15 Thread Mark Paulus
In general, does it make sense to mount c:/cygwin as / in managed mode? Is there some reason this would not be a good idea? I have done this, and when I do, some files "disappear", such as /home/Mark.Paulus, which is my home. If I have a regular mount (c:\cygwin on / type system (binmode)), I

Re: cygcheck does not work if the mount point is mounted with -X option

2004-07-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 11:29:29AM +, Vinay Kumar wrote: >I had mounted my /usr/bin by using mount -X option, which says 'treat >all files under mount point as cygwin executable'. This I did because >"ls" command was not able to process command line arguments

cygcheck does not work if the mount point is mounted with -X option

2004-07-22 Thread Vinay Kumar
Hi, I had mounted my /usr/bin by using mount -X option, which says 'treat all files under mount point as cygwin executable'. This I did because "ls" command was not able to process command line arguments whose length exceeds certain limit. Refer http://sources.redhat.c

Re: 21.2 [cygwin] find-file does not complete mount point directories

2003-09-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 09:32:40AM +0200, Jochen K?pper wrote: >no signature -- the redhat mailer thinks its spam:( "the redhat mailer" tells you how to add yourself to the list so that your messages are not blocked as spam. Read the bounce message or got to http://cygwin.com/lists.html and read

Re: 21.2 [Cygwin] find-file does not complete mount point directories

2003-09-16 Thread Jochen Küpper
Sorry if (where) this is double, original message was bounced from redhat mailer. On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 02:07:23 +0300 Jari Aalto+mail emacs wrote: Jari> 1. Use Cygwin mount points (see below) and mount /usr/src to somewhere Jari> 2. emacs -q -no-site-file Jari> 3. C-x C-f /usr/sr[TAB] Jari> Noth

Re: Reading mount point entries via /proc/registry

2003-07-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 11:29:22AM -0700, Shankar Unni wrote: >Weird issue. Just documenting it here - it's more of a curiosity. It's been documented before. >You can't look up mount point registry entries via the /proc/registry >interface, because the mount point

Reading mount point entries via /proc/registry

2003-07-14 Thread Shankar Unni
Weird issue. Just documenting it here - it's more of a curiosity. You can't look up mount point registry entries via the /proc/registry interface, because the mount point names (which become the directory entries) have "/"s in them. $ ls -l /proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MAC

Re: Mount point not visible in ls

2002-05-07 Thread Mark Himsley
It might be that the directory /usr/bin has been deleted (or never existed) but the mount point still exists. I think this type of thing was discussed in the last week regarding the mounting of /proc and /proc/registry. You should be able to check whether the /usr/bin directory exists using

RE: Mount point not visible in ls

2002-05-07 Thread Mellman Thomas
>>-Original Message- >>From: Conrad Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 5:54 PM >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: Mount point not visible in ls >> >> >>I'm befuddled and I can't find anything on any of t

Fwd: Re: Mount point not visible in ls

2002-05-07 Thread john
Forwarded message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 7 May 2002 13:41:58 - Subject: Re: Mount point not visible in ls Hi, I noticed the same problem exactly, and acording to cygwin, the directory could not be created because it already existed. I then

Mount point not visible in ls

2002-05-07 Thread Conrad Scott
I'm befuddled and I can't find anything on any of the cygwin mailing lists to help me, so I hope someone here can spot my mistake. My system has been working fine for a long time but just recently I noticed that when I do an `ls' of `/usr' or `echo /usr/*', `/usr/bin' doesn't show up. It's there

Re: [bug?] binary mount point option in setup

2002-04-08 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 05:28 PM 4/8/2002, James Nord wrote: >Anyway, diff attached - don't know if it is correct or if it works, usual disclaimers >apply ;-) OK. I'll let Rob review that. >>>Also I couldn't find a way to change the options without running setup or regedit >again. >>>full drives can be changed

Re: [bug?] binary mount point option in setup

2002-04-08 Thread James Nord
everyone and set >the default file format to be unix then the /cygdrive mount point will be binary mode >when running as the administrator user. >> >>mounts are stored in HLKM, however /cygdrive mounts and defaults are stored in HKCU >>(see below.) >> >>So when a us

Re: [bug?] binary mount point option in setup

2002-04-08 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 04:19 PM 4/8/2002, James Nord wrote: >Hi, > >I apear to have found a bug in cygwins setup program 2.125.2.10 > >Description: > >When installing as administrator on XP if you select install for everyone and set the >default file format to be unix then the /cygdrive mo

[bug?] binary mount point option in setup

2002-04-08 Thread James Nord
Hi, I apear to have found a bug in cygwins setup program 2.125.2.10 Description: When installing as administrator on XP if you select install for everyone and set the default file format to be unix then the /cygdrive mount point will be binary mode when running as the administrator user

Re: mount point

2002-01-03 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 08:25 AM 1/3/2002, Tiffany Chan wrote: >My hard disk have c: d: e: f: drive. In Cygwin, > >$ mount >D:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode) >D:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode) >D:\cygwin on / type system (binmode) >D:\oracle on /oracle type system (textmode) >e: on /cygdri

mount point

2002-01-03 Thread Tiffany Chan
My hard disk have c: d: e: f: drive. In Cygwin, $ mount D:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode) D:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode) D:\cygwin on / type system (binmode) D:\oracle on /oracle type system (textmode) e: on /cygdrive/e type system (textmode) f: on /cygdrive/f type