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Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > I don't know what you would like to read. It's part of the way the > Cygwin DLL handles that stuff. To enumerate the available > directories, > the directory opened with opendir() must have been recognized as the > cygdrive directory. If that happens, *only* drives are enumerated > since the cygdrive directory is a virtual directory anyway. > This method can't work on / since then you would have a broken > filesystem tree. That's why we frown on / as cygdrive directory (at > least I do, but apparently nobody cares). OK. So cygdrive prefix is like a mount point. No problem. :-) Thanks Mike -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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