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Re: /usr/bin and /usr/lib mount points (WAS: RE: telnet problems with current cygwin version)
- To: Ross Smith <ross dot s at ihug dot co dot nz>, "'Cygwin \(E-mail\)'" <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: /usr/bin and /usr/lib mount points (WAS: RE: telnet problems with current cygwin version)
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 05:21:17 -0700 (PDT)
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com
--- Ross Smith <ross.s@ihug.co.nz> wrote:
> From: "Earnie Boyd" <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
> >
> > 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.
>
> But why are they mount points instead of ordinary directories? Normal
> Unix systems don't do it that way, so there certainly aren't any
> utilities that depend on it. Why not just create /usr/bin and /usr/lib
> as empty directories?
>
Ok, *you* can do that, let us know how it goes. BTW, make sure you test out
every possible script, client program and server daemon before posting your
results.
Regards,
=====
---
Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
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