Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-Id: <200006092005.AA05785@mlx.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v148.2.1) From: MarketLogix Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 13:04:46 -0700 To: Carl Thompson Subject: Re: setup, default mounts Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Reply-To: mlx@san.rr.com References: <39414B5F.6202B166@carlthompson.net> If I'm understanding this all properly, I'm going to have a bit of a situation when I do finally upgrade from b20.1. Ever since b18 or so, I've flattened the distribution and currently depend on: C: -> / with /bin /usr/bin /usr/lib /usr/local/ ... being wholly separate entities. Looks like we're heading from one extreme to another. ie. from an overly deep directory structure to an overly flat one. Sheesh ! bisk Begin forwarded message: Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 12:54:07 -0700 From: Carl Thompson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-5.0 i686) To: Peter Ring Cc: Cygwin List Subject: Re: setup, default mounts Peter Ring wrote: > > Is there a special reason for not just having four real directories, > /bin and /usr/bin, /lib and /usr/lib? Why mount directories at all? Even some commercial Unices do this with links. HP-UX 10.09 and 10.15 did IIRC, (yes, those were real versions) and maybe other / more recent versions too. > ... > Kind regards, > Peter Ring Carl Thompson -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com