Re: error when starting X-Win

["Larry Hall (Cygwin X)" <reply-to-list-only-lh-x at cygwin dot com>]

Chris Sutcliffe wrote:
> > >> The standard way this has been handled in the past is to set up a 
> > mount
> > >> point for '/tmp/' to a unique location.  In a default Windows
> > >> installation, the following should work (untested):
> > >>
> > >> mount -b -u "$TEMP" /tmp
> > >>
> > >> This keeps things unique for each user anyway.
> > >
> > > That's quite cool.  I decorated it a bit to keep it all within my 
> > cygwin
> > > file space.  Specifically, in my all-purpose ~/Temp directory:
> > >
> > >       mkdir -p ~/Temp/tmp
> > >       mount -b -u c:/cygwin/home/${USER}/Temp/tmp /tmp
>
> When I try to execute the mount, I get:
>
> $ mount -b -u "$TEMP" /tmp
> mount: /tmp: Invalid argument
>
> Is there something I'm missing?

No, not really.  It's shame on me for not trying the syntax I was
offering first.  If you're doing this from inside a Cygwin shell,
use:

mount -b -u $(cygpath -ma "$TEMP") /tmp


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