Mail Archives: cygwin-developers/1998/09/24/23:17:29
Geoffrey Noer wrote:
> I'm currently thinking that we should detect the inability to
> translate a particular path from Win32 to POSIX. Cygwin would then
> create a mount point on the fly for the drive letter in question. So
> Q: would be added to the HKEY_LOCAL_USER mount table as /q or /mnt/q
> (whichever makes more sense) and then that mount point would be used
> for that and future translations involving that drive letter. Of
> course, the user could always opt to remove it and put in a different
> mapping later if they so choose.
Installer should create /q or /mnt/q in the global mount table for all local drives. The same for /dev/fdX, /dev/stX etc.
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Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia
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