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Re: Mount point not visible in ls


At 03:53 PM 5/7/2002, Conrad Scott wrote:
>Thanks to all those who suggested, correctly, that my problem would have
>been caused by the mount point (/usr/bin) having been deleted. I had my Un*x
>head on, where you can't mount on a non-existent mount point.
>
>While on this subject, what is the rationale for this to work in cygwin (w/
>only a warning if performed interactively)? The result, where the mounted
>directory is only visible to certain commands, seems liable to generate
>confusion (or maybe I've been the only one?).

You can check the email archive on this if you're interested in the detailed
history.  The short-form is the implementation is just a mapping, so there's
really no requirement that the directory exists.  One could envision this as
something more complicated but that's really all it is.  However, it's 
because of the UNIX mind-set with the like-named command that the current
"mount" warns when the directory doesn't exist.  There hasn't been a reason
to add more semantics to make it more like the UNIX equivalent in this regard 
however and there are benefits to not doing so.


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