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, 15 Mar 2001 13:59:50 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin Subject: Re: bash: difference between //c/ and c:/ Message-ID: <20010315135950.E12630@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin References: <200103151246.f2FCkmO310968@jupiter.akutech-local.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200103151246.f2FCkmO310968@jupiter.akutech-local.de>; from ralf@akutech.de on Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 01:46:48PM +0100 On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 01:46:48PM +0100, Ralf Fassel wrote: > Hi all, > > cygwin-1.1.8-2.tar.gz > bash-2.04-7a.tar.gz > > there is a subtle difference between c:/ and //c/ > compare the real execution times (this is for a local desktop bash > (not via ssh)): > > bash$ time cd //c/ > real 0m0.050s > user 0m0.000s > sys 0m0.000s > > bash$ time cd c:/ > real 0m6.770s > user 0m0.000s > sys 0m0.000s > > bash$ mount > Device Directory Type Flags > C:\cygwin\bin /usr/bin system binmode > C:\cygwin\lib /usr/lib system binmode > C:\cygwin / system binmode > > What's the deal with the LETTER:/PATH pathnames in bash? Am I > supposed to use //c/? Is c:/ deprecated somehow? Bash is a UNIX shell. Why not using UNIX paths? Actually not C:/ is deprictaed but //c! The syntax is ambiguous since that could also address a SMB server. We may decide to eliminate that syntax for local drives completely in the future. Use the /cygdrive/c syntax instead. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple