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Subject: Re: Setting cygdrive prefix to '/' causes disappearing mounts
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From: Kazuhiro Fujieda <fujieda@jaist.ac.jp>
Date: 19 Sep 2000 23:08:35 +0900
In-Reply-To: Chris Faylor's message of Tue, 19 Sep 2000 07:21:28 -0400
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>>> On Tue, 19 Sep 2000 07:21:28 -0400
>>> Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> said:

> >I think the matching code is wrong; what should probably be avoided is
> >either setting the cygdrive prefix to "", or to "/.", because then /bin
> >would be under cygdrive, but setting the cygdrive prefix to "/" should
> >*not* cause problems for "/bin"; it could however cause problems with
(snip)
> That's not how it works.  That mount logic does maximum length matching,
> so /bin is matched first.  Have you even tried this?

I'm afraid there is a slip. As I see it, the mount logic tries
the pattern matching with "<cygdrive prefix>[a-zA-Z]\(/\|$\)" at
first, so /bin wouldn't be under cygdrive.
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  | AIST      Kazuhiro Fujieda <fujieda@jaist.ac.jp>
  | HOKURIKU  School of Information Science
o_/ 1990      Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

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