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: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 23:26:41 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin Subject: Re: [PATCH] ls & "magic" cygdrive dir (was: RE: cygdrive stuff) Message-ID: <20010924232641.E16412@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin References: <20010924224135.C16412@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from info@rlsystems.net on Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 11:17:59PM +0200 On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 11:17:59PM +0200, Ronald Landheer wrote: > So, if I understand correctly, devices *always* take precedence over > files? Conflicts between them are *absolutely* impossible? > Just making sure - seems too good to be true :) But it is true. The reason is that a path is always translated by calling a `look for device' function very early in the path translation (path.cc). Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/