--- Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 06:08:33PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: > >John Carlyle- Clarke wrote: > >> Darn -- figured it out about 10 seconds after I hit send. It > was of course a > >mount. I unmounted, created an empty /usr/lib and > >> then remounted, and now it shows in the folder listing. Sorry > about that. > > > >WARNING! This is inadvisable! Imagine... some Cygwin binary > tarballs installing > >stuff into /lib, others into /usr/lib, depending on configuration > and how the > >package works. Ditto /bin and /usr/bin. > > Actually, I don't see any harm in it at all as long as the mounts > are > set up appropriately so that c:\cygwin\lib == /usr/lib . The > existence > of a c:\cygwin\usr\lib directory should really not cause any > problems.
If it helps, just think of cygwin mounts like bindmounts [mount -o bind ...] in linux. FWICT, the behavior seems to be identical [other then how you actually mount them]. Cheers, Nicholas __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
