On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 04:41:42PM -0400, Harold L Hunt wrote: >Chris, > >> Hmm. If you do a: >> >> mount -f -X -b c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin /usr/X11R6/bin >> >> does the problem go away, perchance? I would expect it to. > >Tried it, didn't work. See below. Any other syntax hints?
Yeah, if you are going to perform the mount from a bash shell, remember that '\' is a special character. Either use doubled backslashes or "forward" slashes (as you've done). I don't know what's causing the "Permission denied" unless you can't write to the HKLM part of the registry. Adding a '-u' to the mount options may help. cgf >(My user name is 'hunt' on this machine.) > >Harold > > >hunt@NUCFAC13 ~ >$ mount -f -X -b c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin /usr/X11R6/bin >mount: /usr/X11R6/bin: Invalid argument > >hunt@NUCFAC13 ~ >$ mount -f -X -b c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin /usr/X11R6/bin/ >mount: /usr/X11R6/bin/: Invalid argument > >hunt@NUCFAC13 ~ >$ mount -f -X -b c:/cygwin/usr/X11R6/bin /usr/X11R6/bin >mount: /usr/X11R6/bin: Permission denied > > >C:\cygwin\bin>mount -f -X -b c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin /usr/X11R6/bin >mount: /usr/X11R6/bin: Permission denied > > >hunt@NUCFAC13 /usr/X11R6 >$ ls -l >total 0 >drwxr-xr-x 2 hunt Administ 0 Jun 25 13:00 bin >drwxr-xr-x 6 hunt Administ 0 Jun 25 13:06 include >drwxr-xr-x 3 hunt Administ 0 Jun 25 13:00 lib >drwxr-xr-x 5 hunt Administ 0 Jun 25 13:06 man