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Re: POSIX names for drive letters
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According to Schwarz, Konrad on 8/25/2006 1:57 AM:
> Hi,
>
> I know that it is kind of late :-), but I would like to suggest an
> alternative/additional mapping of drive letters to the MinGW and Cygwin
> file-system name space.
>
> The proposed mapping for directory `C:\' is `//./C$/' (or perhaps
> `//./C/').
Sorry, but I don't like this for cygwin (I don't care how msys decides on
the issue, though). Cygwin already has /cygdrive/c mapping to c:\ in a
default installation, and that is configurable through mount to be
whatever a user wants (even /c). Cygwin also already has support for
//server/share, and mixing in //./c would make that code path much more
difficult to maintain.
You probably won't get very far with this proposal in cygwin without
actual patches and a LOT more convincing.
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Life is short - so eat dessert first!
Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
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