Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <42426D9F.FC6B98A3@dessent.net> Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 23:34:55 -0800 From: Brian Dessent Organization: My own little world... MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Path confusion References: <20050324071719.DAFA8834E0@pessard.research.canon.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Luke Kendall wrote: > Here's something that stunned me: I see different contents of a > directory I want to be "empty-ish" (c:/cygwin/home), depending on how I > refer to it. I think it's because sometimes, "c:/cygwin" == "/". > > $ cygpath -m / > C:/cygwin > > $ ls c:/cygwin/home > 00-THIS-DIRECTORY-SHOULD-BE-EMPTY.txt > > $ cd c:/cygwin/home I think it's because when you 'cd' the path is normalized. After "cd c:/cygwin/home" the current working directory is now /home. If you do "ls /home" you should see the contents of the mount, if you do "ls c:/cygwin/home" you'll see the contents of that directory itself. In other words mounting something on "/home" only affects paths that start with "/home". If you want "c:/cygwin/home" to actually be "d:/home" then make it a symlink. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/