RE: Updated: cygwin-1.3.6-1 -- changing cygdrive prefix broken?

[Eduardo R Larranaga <Eduardo dot R dot Larranaga at syntegra dot com>]

Larry,

  I appreciate your taking the time to work with a dummy.  However, I read the
  message you provided the link for and am still at a loss.

  In this message (Subject: Re: bugreport cygwin 1.3.6 + bash 2.05a-2 + command
  completion) "cgf"  says he cannot duplicate the problem even with the
  "strange mount table".

  Surely you are not suggesting that using a "strange mount table" is the
  Cygwin development team's solution to the problem?

  I just saw that a new cygwin is available (1.3.6-2) perhaps the issue has
  been addressed after all...

Ed

On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:

> OK, I'll take the time to look it up myself and point you right to it
> (not something I usually do mind you)...
> 
> 
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-12/msg00125.html
> 
> 
> OK, so it's "hidden" under a little different topic, so maybe it's 
> easy to miss.  Just shows you that you it's worthwhile to dig! ;-)
> 
> I trust that answers your question?
> 
> Larry
> 
> At 12:24 PM 12/4/2001, Eduardo R Larranaga wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >   I *have* been reading the archives and I do not see an answer to this issue,
> >   only complaints.
> >
> >Ed
> >
> >On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
> >
> > > At 12:14 PM 12/4/2001, Eduardo R Larranaga wrote:
> > > >In the Cygwin User's guide is a suggestion (and an example) to change the
> > > >default prefix with the mount command:
> > > >
> > > >   mount -change-cygdrive-prefix /
> > > >
> > > >It seems that many of us have chosen to go with changing the prefix to /, but
> > > >with the latest version of cygwin 1.3.6-1 this leads to / being unusable.  Being
> > > >able to do an "ls /" and see the contents of C:\ is a very desirable feature.
> > > >
> > > >In the recent announcement of cygwin 1.3.6-1 the following line describes a new
> > > >feature which, I believe, causes this breakage:
> > > >
> > > >   -  Allow use of /cygdrive as a directory.   (Christopher Faylor)
> > > >
> > > >I'd like to ask the Cygwin developers to explain if this is:
> > > >
> > > >   a) being considered a bug that will be fixed, or
> > > >   b) this is a change in cygwin behavior that we'll have to live with, or
> > > >   c) none of the above - the prefix is changed in a different way now
> > > 
> > > 
> > > It's worthwhile to check the email list archives before asking these
> > > kinds of questions.  The answers are often there (and certainly are 
> > > there in this case).  It's good practice... and useful too! ;-)
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
> > > RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
> > > 838 Washington Street                   (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
> > > Holliston, MA 01746                     (508) 893-9889 - FAX
> > > 
> > > 
> 
> 


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