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Re: Device names in /proc/mounts
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 11:40:51AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Jul 27 10:35, Schwarz, Konrad wrote:
>>>From: Corinna Vinschen On Jul 25 14:29, Schwarz, Konrad wrote:
>>>>There seems no way of mapping device names (resp. Win32 Device
>>>>Namespace names) to mount points --
>>>
>>>Cygwin mount pounts are not mapping disk devices to POSIX pathnames,
>>>but Win32 pathnames to POSIX pathnames.
>>
>>That is incompatibile with Linux's /proc/mount and mount(8).
>
>Yes. Cygwin is *not* an operating system. It does not mount devices.
>That's the task of the NT kernel as in
>
>"\??\C:" ==> "\Device\HarddiskVolume2".
>
>Cygwin mount points are mapping from a POSIX to a Win32 path, nothing
>else. That's how it is defined.
And that is how it has operated (and has been documented to operate)
for, oh I don't know, fifteen+ years or so? It's not going to change.
cgf
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