This is the mail archive of the
cygwin-developers@cygwin.com
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
Re: New output from mount.exe
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 10:32:49AM +0900, Kazuhiro Fujieda wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 2 Apr 2001 11:00:45 -0400
>>>> Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com> said:
>
>> Again, this was not the rationale for this change. Here is the change
>> to mount.exe:
>>
>> - const char *format = "%-18s %-18s %-11s %s\n";
>> + const char *format = "%s on %s type %s (%s)\n";
>>
>> I didn't reformat slashes or do anything else that was not in the
>> original version of mount.
>
>Would you like to go a step further?
>
>Corinna's idea "just printing slashes" can reduce chances for
>newbies to fail to escape backslashes on creating a new entry
>with the `mount' command. This would be fine.
It would also lie to the user about what was happening in the Cygwin
internals. Cygwin stores these paths as c:\foo not c:/foo. I don't see
any reason to mislead anyone about what Cygwin is really doing.
cgf