Subject: Re: pwd command output
From: Chris Faylor <[email-masked]>
To: Keith Starsmeare <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 08:03:05 -0400

On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 08:28:31AM +0100, Keith Starsmeare wrote:
>On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>
>> BTW, I'm thinking that the cygdrive text is stored in the registry and could be
>> changed to what you want.  I can't verify that at this time but you could look
>> using RegEdit.  The /cygdrive/ was added to change the // due to problems with
>> Win32 thinking it was referencing a network drive.  It could have just as well
>> have been made an error if the drive isn't mounted rather than defaulting to
>> anything at all.
>
>Why have the drives been mapped under "cygdrive" - that's quite a
>confusing name as it's referring to the DOS or Window's drives! Why not
>mount them on /dev (in the Unix style) instead?

Because that is not what /dev is used for on UNIX.  For instance, you
don't do "ls /dev/a" to get a directory under UNIX.  You also don't do
something like "cd /dev/fd0" to change your directory there.

If you don't like the "/cygdrive" name you can change it.

-Chris Faylor
-Cygwin Manager
-Cygnus Solutions

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