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Re: weird mount/ls behaviour
- To: Matt <matt at use dot net>, cygwin-developers at sources dot redhat dot com
- Subject: Re: weird mount/ls behaviour
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 05:39:33 -0700 (PDT)
--- Matt <matt@use.net> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 02:36:27PM -0700, Matt wrote:
> > >mount never seems to return an error if it can't qualify the win32
> > >path supplied.
> >
> > Correct. It never has and it is not intended to do so, AFAIK.
>
> huh, ok. Why does 'ls' not show the bad mount point at all and 'ls -l' does?
> This was the weird behaviour part of my report.
>
It's an invalid mount point, results are unpredicatable and undefined. The
patch will eliminate that type of invalid mount point by not allowing it to
occur.
Cheers,
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