On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 10:09:15AM -0800, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 09:45:24 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 02:00:08PM +0200, Gernot Hillier wrote: > > >Am Dienstag, 3. August 2004 13:50 schrieb Corinna Vinschen: > > >>Keep in mind that this only happens if / isn't mounted -> back to > > >>undocumented behaviour. > > > > > >Well, this is not undocumented. The case without mounts is explicitly > > >documented on http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html which says > > >"By default, the POSIX root / points to the system partition [...]". > > > > Joshua, would you mind fixing the documentation? > > Well, this is embarrassing but I'm just getting caught up on last > August's email. How does this sound? > > Since Windows uses drive letters and UNC paths > instead of a single filesystem > root, the POSIX root <filename>/</filename> must be set to a directory > in the Windows file system using the <command>mount</command> command. In absence of such a mount, Cygwin maps / to the root of the current Windows working directory (e.g. H:\ or \\computer\share)
[this is the long standing behavior, see http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-08/msg00016.html] Pierre -- 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/