From: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: Re: mounts, ls, and filename completion 14 Aug 1998 06:37:14 -0700 Message-ID: <19980814015608.28330.rocketmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@send101.yahoomail.com> Reply-To: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: gw32 ---Geoffrey Noer wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 10, 1998 at 09:31:26AM -0400, Larry Hall wrote: > [...] > > This should be a FAQ (is it already?) The mount utility has much the same > > semantics (although not the same syntax!) as UNIX variants. It does not, > > however, have the requirement that the directory to which you are mounting > > must exist. This is unfortunate in many ways since all the existing tools > > assume that if there is something mounted, there will already be an entry > > in the directory for the tools (ls, bash) to pick up on. > [...] > > The fact that mount does not require the parent directory to exist is > a bug. It really ought to. > > I also consider the /// system for referring to drives a > Bad Idea (tm) since it conflicts with the UNC namespace. I'm somewhat > thinking of removing this functionality and replacing it with > something more sensible but this may be too painful for everyone for > us to contemplate it seriously. :-( Please, consider it. I would even ask that you go as far as considering creating /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab files. == - \\||// ---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o---- --earnie_boyd@yahoo.com-- ------ooo0O--O0ooo------- _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".