X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 14:26:47 -0500 From: kralius To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygdrive flags / hiding cygdrive prefix directory (the old behavior) In-Reply-To: <448F8921.1262D3F5@dessent.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <448F8921.1262D3F5@dessent.net> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 On 6/13/06, Brian Dessent wrote: > > changed to become visible. The cygwin installer now also creates a > > real directory on the windows file system called cygdrive, > > I don't know where you got this idea but it's absolutely not true. > There should never be a physical directory backing the cygdrive prefix, > and no package (and certainly not setup.exe) should ever create it. > Some users may create it to assist in tab-completion, but that is > something they would have done by hand. I agree that it shouldn't create this directory... But i have tried this a couple more times to verify. If i only do a base install, it does not create a physical cygdrive directory, but if i install everything, it does. (for reference, this is from a full download to disk on june 8, 2006 from the sourceware.mirrors.tds.net mirror). > This change was made in 1.5.19: > . It > was a change to the code in the DLL, and it has nothing to do with flags > in the mount table. Great! This is what i was looking for. Do you think anyone at cygwin would consider making this feature optional in a later release? - Kral -- 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/