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: <20000615130755.20768.qmail@web113.yahoomail.com> Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 06:07:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com Subject: Re: /usr/bin and /usr/lib mount points (WAS: RE: telnet problems with current cygwin version) To: Peter Ring Cc: "'Cygwin \(E-mail\)'" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- Peter Ring wrote: -8<- > > BTW, I'm also a bit perplexed about /bin vs. /usr/bin ... There's a > discussion about it starting at about this message -8<- The reason for these mount points is that some UNIX utilities depend on the existance of /usr/bin and/or /usr/lib. With out these the utilities will fail to work. Knowing this, and not wanting to create duplication, it was decided to just create mount points of the physical directories. If you remove them (and you have the right to do so), then you risk not being able to run some utilities. Regards, ===== --- Earnie Boyd: __Cygwin: POSIX on Windows__ Cygwin Newbies: __Minimalist GNU for Windows__ Mingw32 List: Mingw Home: __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints! http://photos.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com