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Re: Why not mount / at C: ?
- To: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Why not mount / at C: ?
- From: Egor Duda <deo at logos-m dot ru>
- Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 17:27:30 +0400
- Organization: DEO
- References: <20000824115435.26205.qmail@web108.yahoomail.com>
- Reply-To: Egor Duda <deo at logos-m dot ru>
Hi!
Thursday, 24 August, 2000 Earnie Boyd earnie_boyd@yahoo.com wrote:
EB> I'm beginning to think that it would be best to not support unmounted drives in
EB> the Cygwin environment. It gets far to confusing and there are solutions
EB> around not having the support. Saying this, IMO, we should deprecate the
EB> unmounted drives support. What do you think?
you can confuse things much more. now, every win32 path can be
converted to posix form, and this is very useful feature. when program
call getcwd(), for example, it assumeses that posix layer will return
correct posix-style path, and have all rights to.
Egor. mailto:deo@logos-m.ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19
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