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From: Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 10:29:14 -0400
To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Setting cygdrive prefix to '/' causes disappearing mounts
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In-Reply-To: <s1s66nsh3to.fsf@jaist.ac.jp>; from fujieda@jaist.ac.jp on Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 11:08:35PM +0900

On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 11:08:35PM +0900, Kazuhiro Fujieda wrote:
>>>> 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.

I don't follow.  I've actually tried this.  I set the cygdrive prefix to '/'
and then did a 'ls -l /bin'.  The result was my /bin directory, as expected.
Also, performing a 'ls -l /' showed me the expected root directory.

cgf

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