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Date: | Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:41:55 -0600 |
From: | Jeremy Bopp <jeremy AT bopp DOT net> |
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Subject: | Re: 1.7] Can you have multipe cygdrive path prefixes active at once |
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aputerguy wrote: > Jeremy Bopp writes: >> Well, it's a bit of a hack, but you could try something like the >> following: >> >> $ dirname $(cygpath -u C:/) > >> This assumes that there is always a C: drive and converts the path to >> the root of that drive into a POSIX path which will include the cygdrive >> prefix. Then dirname is used to effectively chop off the drive letter >> leaving you with the cygdrive prefix. > > This doesn't seem to work in the case where you have mounted the C: drive. > For example I mount C: on /c > > And the above returns: > $ dirname $(cygpath -u c:/) > / > which doesn't tell me what the cygdrive prefix is -- only where 'c' is > mounted. > > Of course, as pointed out in a later reply, one can use an unused disk drive > letter like 'x' but that is hardly robust since who knows what drive letters > will be unused and/or unmounted. Assuming you do find a reliable way to discover the cygdrive prefix, how do you plan to handle mapped drives for remote shares? I ask because you mentioned that you might want to be able to run something like find on the cygdrive prefix itself, and of course scanning a remote share like that may not be desirable. Also, how do you handle the mounted C: case as well? Even if you mount it to /c as you have done, I think /cygdrive/c will also have it. -Jeremy -- 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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