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Re: Strange things with cygdrive


Eric Blake wrote:

How is the date horrible?  It is 0 seconds since the epoch, for lack of a
better date.


Mark J. Reed wrote:

/cygdrive is not a real directory. That "horrible" metadata you're
complaining about isn't actually stored anywhere, it's generated by
the system when you ask for it.

If I have well understood '/proc' is a virtual directory like '/cygdrive', but for it


$ ls -lrt /
dr-xr-xr-x   1 Administrator  Administrators  0 Dec  1  2006 proc
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^    ^^^^^^^^^^^^

So, why not similar things for cygdrive? This was only my curiosity.

Regarding the 'horrible', that date (01.01.1970) remembered me some negative experiences on old DOS.


Cheers, Angelo.


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