Re: Mount command warning with latest cygwin1.dll snapshot

["Karl M" <karlm30 at hotmail dot com>]

Hi All...

> From: Matthew Woehlke
> Subject: Re: Mount command warning with latest cygwin1.dll snapshot
> Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 13:42:14 -0600
>
> Karl M wrote:
> > I just tried out the latest snapshot and my bat file to clean up my mounts 
> > now gives warning messages. The current released version of cygwin1.dll 
> > does not produce the warnings.
> >
> > Z:\>C:\Cygwin\bin\mount -f -s -b C:/Cygwin /
> > cygwin warning:
> >  MS-DOS style path detected: Z:\
> >  Preferred POSIX equivalent is: /z
> >  CYGWIN environment variable option "nodosfilewarning" turns off this 
> > warning.
> >  Consult the user's guide for more details about POSIX paths:
> >    http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames
>
> This looks like something is going wrong when running Cygwin programs 
> ('mount', at least) from a DOS prompt. Does this produce any output?
>
> Z:\> C:\Cygwin\bin\env | C:\Cygwin\bin\grep Z:

Yes. It shows my HOMEDRIVE environment variable.
> What happens if you run the file from a different directory? Does the 
> warning always reflect the current directory?
Try a smaller and simple test. Type "mount -m" and look at the output.

$ mount -m
mount -f -s -b "C:/Cygwin/bin" "/usr/bin"
mount -f -s -b "C:/Cygwin/lib" "/usr/lib"
mount -f -s -b "C:/Cygwin" "/"
mount -s -t --change-cygdrive-prefix "/"

The above is my output from "mount -m".  Now type the mount command for the 
Cygwin root, in my case

mount -f -s -b "C:/Cygwin" "/"

and see what you get. I get

$ mount -f -s -b "C:/Cygwin" "/"
cygwin warning:
 MS-DOS style path detected: C:\Cygwin
 Preferred POSIX equivalent is: /
 CYGWIN environment variable option "nodosfilewarning" turns off this 
warning.
 Consult the user's guide for more details about POSIX paths:
   http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames

Reverting to the released cygwin1.dll eliminates the warning.

Thanks,

...Karl

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