"Jörg Schaible" wrote: > 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.
And all this time I've been running cygwin with no physical c:\cygwin\usr\bin directory. Maybe I should open up a DOS window and create it. No I don't think I will. I think the mount of "C:/cygwin/bin" "/usr/bin" is sufficient. -- J. Lambert -- 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/
