error when starting X-Win
Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
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Wed Jan 31 05:50:00 GMT 2007
Chris Sutcliffe wrote:
>> >> The standard way this has been handled in the past is to set up a
>> mount
>> >> point for '/tmp/' to a unique location. In a default Windows
>> >> installation, the following should work (untested):
>> >>
>> >> mount -b -u "$TEMP" /tmp
>> >>
>> >> This keeps things unique for each user anyway.
>> >
>> > That's quite cool. I decorated it a bit to keep it all within my
>> cygwin
>> > file space. Specifically, in my all-purpose ~/Temp directory:
>> >
>> > mkdir -p ~/Temp/tmp
>> > mount -b -u c:/cygwin/home/${USER}/Temp/tmp /tmp
>
> When I try to execute the mount, I get:
>
> $ mount -b -u "$TEMP" /tmp
> mount: /tmp: Invalid argument
>
> Is there something I'm missing?
No, not really. It's shame on me for not trying the syntax I was
offering first. If you're doing this from inside a Cygwin shell,
use:
mount -b -u $(cygpath -ma "$TEMP") /tmp
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