From: sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject: RE: mount() semantics
21 Sep 1998 23:57:23 -0700
Message-ID: <01BDE616.0011FDD0.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@sos>
To: "cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com" <cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com>,
        "'Geoffrey Noer'" <noer AT cygnus DOT com>

Geoffrey Noer wrote:
> I am tempted to suggest requiring that /foo/bar exist as of b20,
> modifying mount() in winsup accordingly.  That would have the
> advantage of making mount()'s semantics much closer to Unix.  But it
> would also have the disadvantage of requiring physical directory mount
> points which could be a bummer to have to cope with.
> 

Even now many cygwin users creates "mount point" directories in order to filename completion in bash works.

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Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia