On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Andrew Schulman <schulman.and...@epa.gov> wrote: >> I have found that terminfo is built such that it requires /usr/share >> to be available but /usr/share isn't mounted by default. This causes >> unexpected side effects of the terminal not responding properly >> especially noticed when using the Backspace key. In my opinion either >> terminfo needs to change its settings to use /share instead of >> /usr/share or Cygwin needs modified to automatically mount /usr/share >> like it does /usr/lib. Or rather just automount /usr such that it >> points to / regardless of the underlying directory. The automount of >> /usr/lib also presents an issue when the user mounts /usr to point to >> `cygpath -m /` in that any access to /usr gives a directory not found >> error when /lib doesn't actually exist. > > /usr/share isn't mounted separately, at least in any Cygwin installation > I've ever had. It's just a directory within /usr, which is within the > mount /. >
But not automounted within the cygwin1.dll initialization process. Only /usr/bin and /usr/lib are. At least with 1.7.32. > Moreover /usr/share should always exist, since many base packages store > files in it. Does it not exist in your installation? Do you have e.g. > /usr/share/doc? /usr/share doesn't exist unless /usr or /usr/share is mounted via /etc/fstab. /share does exist. -- cyg Simple -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
