Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/10/25/07:45:20
Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 05:56:36PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>> On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 11:05:13AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>>>> Looks like the cygdrive prefix takes precedence over explicit mounts.
>>>> This is arguably a bug. <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC>.
>>>> Corinna or Chris, care to comment?
>>>
>>> My name doesn't start with C, but I will comment that if the precedence
>>> went the other way, a mount like:
>>>
>>> mount c:/foo /cygdrive/d
>>>
>>> would make a windows path d:\bar have no posix translation.
>>
>> How is this different from
>>
>> mount c:/baz /somemount
>> mount c:/foo /somemount/d
>>
>> (except for the fact that /cygdrive/d is an automount)? I'm actually not
>> sure what's meant by "posix translation" in this context...
>
> For example, assume a windows PATH=d:\bar. What does a cygwin program
> convert PATH to at startup?
d:\\bar
or
d:/bar
> There would be no equivlent,
... apart from those two!
cheers,
DaveK
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