Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 17:27:30 +0400 From: Egor Duda X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.41) Reply-To: Egor Duda Organization: DEO X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <0727.000824@logos-m.ru> To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: Why not mount / at C: ? In-reply-To: <20000824115435.26205.qmail@web108.yahoomail.com> References: <20000824115435.26205.qmail@web108.yahoomail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi! Thursday, 24 August, 2000 Earnie Boyd earnie_boyd@yahoo.com wrote: EB> I'm beginning to think that it would be best to not support unmounted drives in EB> the Cygwin environment. It gets far to confusing and there are solutions EB> around not having the support. Saying this, IMO, we should deprecate the EB> unmounted drives support. What do you think? you can confuse things much more. now, every win32 path can be converted to posix form, and this is very useful feature. when program call getcwd(), for example, it assumeses that posix layer will return correct posix-style path, and have all rights to. Egor. mailto:deo@logos-m.ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19 -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com