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RE: Why not mount / at C: ?
- To: 'Earnie Boyd' <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>, Jean-Paul Le Fevre <J-P dot LeFevre at cea dot fr>, cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: RE: Why not mount / at C: ?
- From: Bernard Dautrevaux <Dautrevaux at microprocess dot com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 18:36:52 +0200
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 1:55 PM
> To: Jean-Paul Le Fevre; cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: Re: Why not mount / at C: ?
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> I'm beginning to think that it would be best to not support
> unmounted drives in
> the Cygwin environment. It gets far to confusing and there
> are solutions
> around not having the support. Saying this, IMO, we should
> deprecate the
> unmounted drives support. What do you think?
>
No, please :-)
Currently the naming scheme allows simple conversion from posix paths to NT
paths with almost no cost: its simply transliteration (that's why I like so
much the //X/path stuff, but I can live with /cygdrive/X/path as I only have
to read the registry once at program startup to get the -- changeable --
string to use as 'cygdrive').
Suppressing the support for unmounted drives would need to search the mount
table for each such transliteration; as I'm using a lot of non-cygwin
programs I write from cygwin that would force me to manually handle the
cygwin mount table in these cases ;-(
Regards,
Bernard
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