On Feb 4 22:47, Marco Atzeri wrote: > On 04/02/2014 22:41, carolus wrote: > > > > >>You're not remounting the Cygwin root. > > > >I'm confused by this statement. Isn't /cygdrive/c/cygwin/ the same as > >Cygwin root? > > YES
Uhm... no? You have to look at this from the POSIX path angle. "/" is not the same as "/cygdrive/c/cygwin", even if, under the hood, they resolve to the same Windows path. For every POSIX path, the mount flags are taken from the matching fstab entry. So, take two fstab entries: C:/foo /bar some_fs binary 0 0 C:/foo /baz some_fs text 0 0 If you write to a file under /bar, it will be written in binary mode, if you write to the exact same file under /baz, it will be written in text mode: $ cd /bar $ echo Hallo > blub $ od -c blub 0000000 H e l l o \n 0000006 [~]$ cd /baz [~]$ echo Hello > blub [~]$ od -c blub 0000000 H e l l o \r \n 0000007 Does this example make it clearer? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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