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RE: Updated: cygwin-1.3.6-1 -- changing cygdrive prefix broken?
- From: Eduardo R Larranaga <Eduardo dot R dot Larranaga at syntegra dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 11:14:25 -0600 (CST)
- Subject: RE: Updated: cygwin-1.3.6-1 -- changing cygdrive prefix broken?
In the Cygwin User's guide is a suggestion (and an example) to change the
default prefix with the mount command:
mount -change-cygdrive-prefix /
It seems that many of us have chosen to go with changing the prefix to /, but
with the latest version of cygwin 1.3.6-1 this leads to / being unusable. Being
able to do an "ls /" and see the contents of C:\ is a very desirable feature.
In the recent announcement of cygwin 1.3.6-1 the following line describes a new
feature which, I believe, causes this breakage:
- Allow use of /cygdrive as a directory. (Christopher Faylor)
I'd like to ask the Cygwin developers to explain if this is:
a) being considered a bug that will be fixed, or
b) this is a change in cygwin behavior that we'll have to live with, or
c) none of the above - the prefix is changed in a different way now
Thanks,
Ed
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