Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 16:12:52 -0800 From: Joshua Daniel Franklin Reply-To: Joshua Daniel Franklin To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: mapping root directory to SystemDrive / CurrentDrive (documentation change needed) In-Reply-To: <20041227210241.GA885839@hpn5170> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <200408021452.34000.gernot.hillier@siemens.com> <200408031317.20267.gernot.hillier@siemens.com> <20040803115006.GR31522@cygbert.vinschen.de> <200408031400.08988.gernot.hillier@siemens.com> <20040803134524.GE16002@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20041227210241.GA885839@hpn5170> X-IsSubscribed: yes On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 16:02:41 -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > In absence of such a mount, Cygwin maps / to the root of the current > Windows working directory (e.g. H:\ or \\computer\share) > > [this is the long standing behavior, see > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-08/msg00016.html] Thanks Pierre, I see that you provided a patch on September 5: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2004-q3/msg00082.html I take it that this formerly "undocumented" behavior is now here to stay. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/