Re: [Mingw-users] Mingw-msys mount problem

[Earnie B. <ea...@us...>]

On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 8:25 PM, Hurcan Solter wrote:
> Hah , I was about the reiterate I've already tried restarting msys
> (that is kill all sh.exe instances) but after your post decided to recheck
> task manager and found a cat.exe still running (orphaned is the correct term
> I guess)
> after killing it I was able to mount the directory from the terminal and it
> was there after
> the restart.I am guessing my previous attempts spawned(forked?) the same
> process anew without
> initialization.Asking out of curiosity, is that the case?
>
> The Doh moment was enlightening :). Thanks a lot.

Taking a guess I would think that it is probable that the thread
watching the /etc directory for changes failed (or didn't even
trigger) because of the orphaned process.

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