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"Mark J. Reed" wrote:

> Well, now, that's a very good point.    The mod time on /proc seems to
> be set to Dec 1st, 2006 at midnight UTC (same on my system) - where
> did that number come from?  It seems like some consistency among
> virtual directories isn't too much to ask.

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-cvs/2007-q1/msg00111.html

The difference is simply that /proc and /cygdrive are plumbed
differently, e.g. /cygdrive is kind of a virtual mount entry and its
name can be changed, whereas /proc is fixed and compiled in.

Brian

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