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Re: ls / does not show /c with cygdrive prefix=/
On Sep 29 09:19, Mikel Ward wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > Mikel Ward wrote:
> > > If I use a standard install with the cygdrive prefix as /cygdrive, the
> > > drive letters appear in a directory listing:
> > >
> > > $ ls /cygdrive
> > > c d w
> > >
> > > But if I change cygdrive to /, they don't:
> > >
> > > Is there any way to make /c, etc. appear in the listing?
> >
> > Manually, yes, automatically, no. You can change your cygdrive
> > folder to any other folder and the drives will show up there.
> > This has only been disabled for the root folder for performance
> > reasons.
>
> Thanks Corinna.
>
> Roughly what was the performance impact?
>
> Is there any way to disable this special case to get the behavior I want
> with prefix=/?
No, sorry.
Corinna
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