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Re: setup - duplicating cygwin

Jim Easton wrote:

cd /cygdrive/c/cygwin
cd proc
For which I received the message:
"bash: cd: proc: No such file or directory"

Of course. As you surmised, these two are *NOT* the same. The literal path "/proc" (and "/dev") are treated specially.

Unlike on linux, "mount" is not modifying the kernel layer below to create a file system linkage - it's all in the emulation layer for open() in cygwin1.dll..

You can't cd to "/" using a native win32 shell, for instance, and see any of these mount points..


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