Mail Archives: cygwin-developers/1998/09/22/07:58:04
At 10:09 AM 9/22/98 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 10:01:34AM -0400, Larry Hall wrote:
>>At 05:26 PM 9/21/98 -0700, Geoffrey Noer wrote:
>>>On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 08:07:03PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Another idea: How about something like /c:/ ?
>>>
>>>That's going to do nasty things for POSIX path parsing.
>>>
>>>DJ suggests using /mnt/<drive-letter>. This is probably the best
>>>suggestion I've heard so far?
>>>
>>
>>Yeah, I've never been that intrigued by the //drive syntax, especially since
>>it contradicts the UNC stuff (although I suppose it could be that I started
>>on UNIX so I don't like these drive letters too!;-)). I still vote (if we
>>are!;-)) to ditch this syntax. If we need to support drive letters for
>>more windows-oriented purists, I think putting the drives somewhere (maybe
>>as DJ suggested) is a good compromise.
>
>I am not wedded to //drive syntax but I don't really like grabbing the
>directory /mnt as our own special directory. I think that it is likely
>that people may already have a directory by that name.
>
Perhaps we don't need to replace //drive by anything. If people want access
to their drives as letters, they can use their default share names and the
//<hostname>/<sharename> syntax...
Larry Hall lhall AT rfk DOT com
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