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Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 11:39:00 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cygwin@cygwin.com>
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Cc: nabbasi@pacbell.net
Subject: Re: /usr/bin and /bin, same directory?  and other weirdness
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In-Reply-To: <002a01c12a57$63340740$1eea65d8@me>; from nabbasi@pacbell.net on Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 08:38:54AM -0700

On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 08:38:54AM -0700, nasser abbasi wrote:
> hi;
>
>cygwin 1.3.2 on win2k.
>
>installed under c:\cygwin.
>
>look how weird: compare c:\cygwin with "/", OK:
>
>bash-2.05$ ls /cygdrive/c/cygwin | wc
>     12      12      81
>
>bash-2.05$ ls / | wc
>     12      12      81
>
>
>compare c:\cygwin\usr\bin with /usr/bin shows different directory!
>
>bash-2.05$ ls -l /cygdrive/c/cygwin/usr/bin | wc
>      1       2       8
>
>bash-2.05$ ls -l /usr/bin | wc
>    601    5484   40130
>
>
>Also, /usr/bin and /bin seems to be the same directory. ls -l does not
>show a soft link. Is this a hard link? why ls -l does not say so?
>
>bash-2.05$ ls -l /bin | wc
>    601    5484   40130
>bash-2.05$ ls -l /cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin | wc
>    601    5484   40130
>
>
>what Ami missing?

The ability to read the FAQ?

cgf

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