ls / does not show /c with cygdrive prefix=/

[Mikel Ward]

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=/?



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