Jon A. Lambert wrote on Thursday, December 04, 2003 7:03 PM: > "Nguyen, Huu-Dung" wrote: >> Thank for the answers >> >> Can any gurus tell me what is the real use of /usr/bin as a mount >> point and /usr/bin as a physically existing directory in the Cygwin >> directory ? Sometime i am too much curious !? >> >> Nguyen > > I'm stumped as I can't think of any use. > Why did you create the physical directory?
It is the way mount works (in any Unix)! You can force a mount without a mount point, but ls the parent directory and you see why. The only question you could arise for Cygwin here is why they use a mount at all for /usr/bin, but that's in the FAQ although I suppose it is more for historical reasons and the (unnecessary) hassle that would arise separating these directories now. Regards, Jörg -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
