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Date:      Thu, 15 Feb 1996 12:50:02 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        freebsd-bugs
Subject:   bin/1029: weird behavior after mounting
Message-ID:  <199602152050.MAA21881@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR bin/1029; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To: mi@aldan.algebra.com
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: bin/1029: weird behavior after mounting
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 15:40:00 -0500

 <<On Thu, 15 Feb 1996 14:22:05 -0500, mi@ALDAN.algebra.com said:
 
 > 	cd /cdrom
 > 	ls
 > 	[Nothing -- cdrom is not mounted]
 > 	mount /cdrom
 > 	ls
 > 	[cdrom's top-level directory printed -- Ok]
 > 	cd ports [one of the subdirectories]
 > 	ports: No such file or directory.
 
 This is as it should be, except that `ls' should probably not give you
 anything.  It would probably work if you said `cd ./ports', given the
 evidence that `ls' works.
 
 The reason why this is may be made clear to you if you created a
 directory `foo' before mounting the cdrom.
 
 -GAWollman
 
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