From: DJ Delorie Subject: Re: Where to install gnu-win32... 29 Aug 1998 00:29:39 -0400 Message-ID: <35E783B3.167E@delorie.com> References: <117E611CDA2DD1118F38006097D2F7140A62B6@ntserver.stelnj.com> <35E6E888.4DA8977F.cygnus.gnu-win32@ivs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; IRIX 5.3 IP22) Dennis Newbold wrote: > I was a little surprised that I could umount /, but it seemed to work OK. The mount tables are only used to translate file paths. Unlike Unix, there is no locking mechanism that would prevent you from unmounting a mount while you're in that directory. In the absense of mounts, it probably maps the current drive as-is (so "/" is the root of whatever drive you're on). Note that changing the mount table while you're using that mount may lead to interesting results, like `pwd` changing out from under you.