On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 10:59:26AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Feb 19 17:27, Wynfield Henman wrote: >> I just noticed a new (or I just noticed it) directory in what should >> be the root directory or C:\cygwin, which should be the same as I >> understand it. But, why do I get different contents, i.e., an >> interesting subdirectory "proc" only shows up on ls /, but not >> ls /cygdrive/c/cygwin as shown below: >> >> $ ls / >> bin cygwin.bat debug.log home libexec sbin usr >> cygdrive cygwin.ico etc lib proc tmp var >> >> >> $ ls /cygdrive/c/cygwin >> bin cygwin.bat debug.log home libexec tmp var >> cygdrive cygwin.ico etc lib sbin usr > >/proc is a virtual directory. It doesn't exist on the disk. It's >the same /proc as on Linux, just smaller and more restricted in its >properties.
And, it's been in cygwin for quite some time... cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
