Hi All...
From: Matthew Woehlke
Subject: Re: Mount command warning with latest cygwin1.dll snapshot
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 13:42:14 -0600
Karl M wrote:
I just tried out the latest snapshot and my bat file to clean up my mounts
now gives warning messages. The current released version of cygwin1.dll
does not produce the warnings.
Z:\>C:\Cygwin\bin\mount -f -s -b C:/Cygwin /
cygwin warning:
MS-DOS style path detected: Z:\
Preferred POSIX equivalent is: /z
CYGWIN environment variable option "nodosfilewarning" turns off this
warning.
Consult the user's guide for more details about POSIX paths:
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames
This looks like something is going wrong when running Cygwin programs
('mount', at least) from a DOS prompt. Does this produce any output?
Z:\> C:\Cygwin\bin\env | C:\Cygwin\bin\grep Z:
Yes. It shows my HOMEDRIVE environment variable.
What happens if you run the file from a different directory? Does the
warning always reflect the current directory?
Try a smaller and simple test. Type "mount -m" and look at the output.
$ mount -m
mount -f -s -b "C:/Cygwin/bin" "/usr/bin"
mount -f -s -b "C:/Cygwin/lib" "/usr/lib"
mount -f -s -b "C:/Cygwin" "/"
mount -s -t --change-cygdrive-prefix "/"
The above is my output from "mount -m". Now type the mount command for the
Cygwin root, in my case
mount -f -s -b "C:/Cygwin" "/"
and see what you get. I get
$ mount -f -s -b "C:/Cygwin" "/"
cygwin warning:
MS-DOS style path detected: C:\Cygwin
Preferred POSIX equivalent is: /
CYGWIN environment variable option "nodosfilewarning" turns off this
warning.
Consult the user's guide for more details about POSIX paths:
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames
Reverting to the released cygwin1.dll eliminates the warning.
Thanks,
...Karl
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